Sanwo-Olu says largest children’s hospital, Massey, will be completed in 2025

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday, during an inspection of the site of Massey Hospital, Lagos Island, a paediatric hospital projected to be the biggest and most equipped in sub-Saharan Africa, announced that it will be completed next year by the Lagos State government.

The governor said the facility will be ready to attend to children’s health needs from next year.

The governor expressed satisfaction with the level of work on the site, saying: “We are on course, and we believe that we should be nearing completion sometime next year.

“All of the major civil works will be completed by the end of this year, and extensive finishing will start. I am happy with the commitment and the quality of work that is being done. The multi-level car park has got to the required height, and the hospital has one more floor and a helipad on top.”

Sanwo-Olu, who recalled that the ground-breaking of the edifice was done less than two years ago, said: “We did promise them that we are going to erect what will be the biggest paediatric hospital in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa at a single location.

“You will see for yourselves the magnitude and extent of what is now being built and where the contractors are.

“I also underestimated the size of this job, but being here on the site gives a full view of the magnitude of what we are trying to put here.

“The current Massey Children’s Hospital, which is almost 100 years old, the minimum we can do is to not only just bring back that name but put up a structure that would last for another 200 years.

“I can see from what we are doing here that this setting will last for centuries. My wish for the residents, especially mothers, fathers, and children on Lagos Island, is that this is another promise made, another promise kept.

“We are about ensuring that we put in infrastructure that will outlive us. We will put up facilities that will be comparable to any of its size in any part of Africa or indeed in the world. This is one of our major health projects, and there are several of them.”