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Edward & Clara Memorial Clinic opens in Lagos

By Guardian Nigeria

21 September 2024   |   2:05 am

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To provide quality and affordable healthcare at the grassroots, another Edward & Clara Memorial Clinic (ECMC), was recently opened in Lagos. This is the second facility to open in Lagos, following the ECMC clinic at SuperSavers Mall, Osapa, Lekki, which was commissioned in April 2023.

To provide quality and affordable healthcare at the grassroots, another Edward & Clara Memorial Clinic (ECMC), was recently opened in Lagos. This is the second facility to open in Lagos, following the ECMC clinic at SuperSavers Mall, Osapa, Lekki, which was commissioned in April 2023.

Managing Director of the clinic, Dr. Augustina Anetor, said the establishment of the walk-in clinic was in response to the challenges in the Nigerian healthcare landscape, which include limited access, inadequate infrastructure and high service delivery costs.

Anetor, a United Kingdom-trained trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, who returned to Nigeria in response to the Federal Government’s appeal to healthcare professionals in the Diaspora to return home to help drive growth, innovation and inclusivity in the healthcare sector, explained that ECMC is a unique project with the vision to become a reference point in preventive healthcare and empowering communities nationwide to thrive in wellness and vitality.

“Our clinic facilities are embedded in the communities, situated closely to the activities of daily life, enabling people to walk in and get urgent attention. Our healthcare services include clinical consultation, laboratory tests, treatment and management of minor and intermediate injuries and fractures, health screening and counselling,” Dr. Anetor said.

Chairman of the ceremony, Mr. Lucky Egede, said setting up of the clinic was a giant stride in nation-building, adding that Nigeria could only make progress when “we all do our bit across different fields and locations in the country. “

Egede, who is also the chairman of SuperSavers supermarket retail chain in Nigeria, said a “healthy community builds a progressive nation.”

He urged shoppers and residents of Okota to take advantage of the ECMC at the shopping mall to enhance their families’ health status, noting that “when you are healthy, you are wearing a crown that only the sick can see.”

Several residential estates and communities in Okota who were represented at the event welcomed the walk-in clinic, saying it has solved the problem of distance and access to quality private primary healthcare in the area.