Duchess International Hospital, Ikeja GRA, Lagos has been voted the Private Tertiary Healthcare Facility of the Year 2024. In a keenly contested nationwide voting process with nominees including several prominent and high-profile Nigerian hospitals, Duchess Hospital came first in the private tertiary healthcare facility of the year category.

The award comes less than three years following the opening of the state-of-the-art medical facility, an indication of the remarkable achievement and hard work and dedication of the staff and management to providing access to affordable quality healthcare on behalf of Nigerians.

The Nigeria Healthcare Excellence Awards (NHEA), established in 2014, is an initiative of Global Project and Resources in partnership with the Anadach Group. It was designed to celebrate distinguished personalities and organisations who have contributed immensely to the growth and development of the Nigerian healthcare sector. The Duchess Hospital’s achievement as the Private Tertiary Healthcare Facility of the Year was presented to the hospital at the awards’ 10thanniversary celebration on June 21, 2024.

Speaking on the feat, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Adetokunbo Shitta-Bey said the Duchess Hospital set out in October 2021 with a clearly articulated vision to become “Africa’s favourite hospital” with the mission to “reverse medical tourism by delivering the highest standards of care”.

Describing the capacity and range of facilities available at the Duchess Hospital, Shitta-Bey explained that the state-of-the-art, multi-specialist 100-bed hospital houses 36 clinical consulting rooms, five operating theatres, 22 critical care beds distributed across adult, paediatric, neonatal and cardiac intensive care, 21 dedicated cardiac beds and eight dialysis beds.

He listed some of the hospital’s important milestone achievements in the last three years to include a groundbreaking 12-hour complex breast reconstruction, routinely performed reconstructive plastic surgery and complex Orthopaedic surgery procedures, including knee and hip replacements and trauma, complex operations on the brain and spine and a thriving and highly successful Open Heart Surgery programme. Shitta-Bey reiterated the hospital’s commitment to delivering access to affordable world-class healthcare for all Nigerians, regardless of socio-economic status, reason registration fee is N5000 for all patients.

Speaking on behalf of the Board of Directors, Dr Adeyemi Onabowale, who is Chairman of the Duchess International Hospital and the Reddington Hospital Group expressed delighted that Duchess has been able to transform the lives of numerous Nigerians, brought joy to homes through providing affordable quality healthcare and reduce the trend of medical tourism abroad in less than three years of its operation.

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