US-based medical doctor donates multi-million naira equipment to ABUAD hospital
An American-based Nigerian medical doctor, Dr Monisade Adeyemo, has donated medical equipment worth several millions of naira to the Afe Babalola University Multi-System Hospital, Ado-Ekiti.
Adeyemo, a family medicine specialist and owner of Lakewood Family Clinic, Maryland, United States, said the gesture was her modest way of giving back to an institution that had continued to save lives in seemingly hopeless situations, including her own.
Speaking during the presentation of the equipment in Ado-Ekiti over the weekend, Adeyemo recalled that she once received treatment at the hospital after suffering a massive stroke, describing the care she got from the hospital’s staff as uncommon and life-saving.
She said the hospital played a critical role in her recovery, adding that her donation was inspired by the need to contribute to the development of Ekiti State and Nigeria’s healthcare sector rather than wait for what the country could offer her.
“I am a Family Medicine Specialist and a Medical Facility Owner and Operator in the United States of America.
“A few years ago, I was brought to this facility, Afe Babalola Multi-System Hospital, where I received a kind of uncommon courtesy from the staff of the Hospital”.
At that time, I suffered from a massive stroke. I was attended to by some concerned and altruistic people and institutions, including Afe Babalola Hospital, which played a critical role in my recovery”, she added.
She urged Nigerians at home and in the diaspora to support the transformation of the nation’s medical landscape by partnering with institutions like ABUAD Hospital, founded by Chief Afe Babalola (SAN).
Receiving the equipment, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Akinola Akinmade, commended the donor for her generosity, describing the gesture as encouraging and motivating.
Akinmade, an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon, said the hospital was equipped to handle almost all categories of medical cases and disclosed that it had just completed its 44th kidney transplant.
He added that since its establishment, the hospital had justified the vision of its founder and had earned recognition among healthcare stakeholders as one of the well-equipped hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa.
