The hospital was donated to the Osun state government.
The facility is named the Modupe and Folorunso Alakija Medical Research and Training Hospital.
The complex includes 20 clinical departments and five non-clinical departments, a community health unit, maternity and neonatal services, research and diagnostic laboratories, and four operating theaters.
The equipment list includes CT and MRI machines, ultrasound and X-ray suites, radiotherapy facilities, and multiple intensive care units, alongside specialist services such as ophthalmology and a modern mortuary.
Alakija, 74, is Nigeria’s richest woman, with a fortune currently estimated at over $1 billion.
She is the founder of Famfa, an oil exploration and production company that owns a 60% working interest in Agbami, Nigeria’s deepwater Oil Mining Lease (OML) 127, the concession for the giant Agbami Field, a major deepwater oil discovery. – Chukwudi Iwuchukwu
