Sanwo-Olu, Fayemi, welcome New Year babies
Abiodun Nejo
Wives of the governors of Lagos and Ekiti states, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu and Bisi Fayemi, respectively, on Friday, welcomed and presented gifts to babies born on New Year’s Day in their states.
Sanwo-Olu welcomed the babies in four state-owned health facilities, namely Mushin General Hospital, Alimosho General Hospital, Orile Agege General Hospital and Ayinke House, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.
According to a statement, baby Amao, a male who weighed 3kg and wad given birth to at exactly 12:01am by Mrs Tomilola Amao, was the first baby of the year at Mushin General Hospital.
Mother of a newborn baby, Mrs. Tomilola Amoo (left); First Lady of Lagos State, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Olusegun Ogboye and wife of the Deputy Governor, Mrs. Oluremi Hamzat during the visit of the First Lady and her team to Lagos’ first baby of the year at Mushin General Hospital…yesterday. PHOTO: SUNDAY AKINLOLU
The wife of Lagos State Governor, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, visited four public health facilities to felicitate with families of the first babies of the year at the hospitals.
The healthcare centres she visited were Mushin General Hospital, Alimosho General Hospital, Orile Agege General Hospital and Ayinke House, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).
Sixty-year-old Mariya Abdallah was diagnosed with end-stage kidney failure in 2018 and has been undergoing dialysis three times a week at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Teaching Hospital, Zaria.
Every week, the mother of three has to fork out almost N80,000 for treatment and for the last three years, she has been on a diet, she said.
“My older sister died from the same disease in 2014,” she said.
“I started experiencing symptoms of nausea, I lost my appetite and I lost a lot of weight.
“We went to a private hospital and I was given medication but I didn’t get better.
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Mr and Mrs Onumba, parent of the 2021 baby of the year in Alimosho General Hospital. PHOTO: NAN
Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, Wife of the Lagos State governor, on Friday welcomed the first baby of the year 2021 at Alimosho General Hospital, Igando Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sanwo-Olu presented gifts items to the baby and other babies during her goodwill visits to the hospital.
NAN reports that the first baby of the year, a boy weighing 4.3kilogrammes was born to the family of Mr and Mrs Onumba at 2:38 a.m. at the hospital.
Sanwo-Olu said the birth of a child required that the mother is adequately taken care of, to ensure that she got skilled care during labour and delivery.
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From left: Mr. Babatunde Amoo, Babys Father, his wifeTomilola, Dr(Mrs.) Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, First lady Lagos, Mrs. Oluremi Hamzat wife Deputy Governor and Mrs. Folashade Jaji, Secretary to Lagos State Government with first Baby of the year, After 7years of Infertility of his parents, Male, Time: 12:00am, weight-3Kg, with CS, Baby of Mr&Mrs. Babatunde Amoo, during First Baby of the year 2021, at General Hospital Mushin, on Friday 1st January 2020. Photo: Bunmi Azeez
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Wife of the Lagos State Governor, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu on Friday welcomed the first babies of the year in four state-owned health facilities of Mushin General Hospital, Alimosho General Hospital, Orile Agege General Hospital and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH.