Eko Hospital

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Eko Hospital
Establishment of EkoCorp PLC
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Eko Hospital
Geography
Location Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria
Organisation
Care system NHS
Funding Private
Type General
Services
Emergency department Yes
History
Opened1982 (1982)
Links
Website https://www.ekohospitals.com/
Lists Hospitals in Nigeria

The Eko Hospital is a private hospital located at Ikeja with annex in Ikoyi, Central Lagos, Surulere, Lagos State Nigeria. [1] This hospital was established in 1982 to succeed Mercy Specialist Clinic, a clinic that operated in the late 1970s to provide health care services to the entire people of Lagos State, Nigeria. [2] [3] Eko hospital main objective and goal is to provide a wide range of health services, including secondary services for its local population, regional as well as national health services. [4] Eko hospital, is the first private hospital to be quoted on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. [5]

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Facilities

Eko hospital has an annex at Ikeja consisting of about 130 beds space with the basic medical equipment for conducting series of diagnostic test. [6] [7] The Surulere annex is a 40-bed Secondary health care facility. [8] Other diagnostic equipment includes:

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