Annual report of the Medical Department of the Western Region of Nigeria.

  • Western Nigeria (Nigeria). Medical Department.
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[1957]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department of the Western Region of Nigeria. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Roman Catholic Mission have two maternity centres one at Obiaruku and the other at Sapele. Both of these are popular and are supervised from Uromi Hospital. The C.M.S. have four maternity centres and these are at Abbi, Oleh, Umouru, and Ughelli. The latter is the largest centre and has ten beds. Abeokuta Province The Roman Catholic Mission maintain the Sacred Heart Hospital at Abeokuta with 128 beds, and this is a recognised training school for both Grade I and Grade II Midwives. The Mission run the St Francis Segregation Village for Lepers at Abeokuta. A maternity hospital is in process of being built at Abeokuta by this Mission and should have about fifty beds when completed. Ijebu Province The American Baptist Mission maintain a leper settlement at Ijebu-Igbo, XVI.—PRIVATE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS There are five private medical practitioners in Benin Division, one at Irrua, two in Benin, one in Sapele and one in Warri. These practitioners each have their own hospital and using this as a base visit their several dispensaries and maternity centres in the areas. One practitioner at Benin and the one at Irrua act as part time School Medical Officers. Two practitioners helped at Benin City Hospital in the Outpatient Department on a part-time basis until one left later in the year for Sapele. In Ibadan Medical Division, there are eight private medical practitioners all of whom are in Ibadan. They each have as a base a hospital and from this supervise various dispensaries and maternity centres. Three of these practitioners work part-time in the outpatient department of Adeoyo Hospital. One parctitioner is employed by the Government as a Police Surgeon. In Ikeja Division, there are four private medical practitioners stationed at Agege, Mushin, Ikorodu and Abeokuta. Each has a central establishment and associated dispensaries and maternity centres. Relations with the private medical practitioners has been cordial throughout the Region. XVIII.*—INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL LIAISON During the year there was no direct contact by official meetings between represen¬ tatives of the French Medical Services in Dahomey and those of the Western Region Medical Services. The dispensary at Idiroko on the frontier of Abeokuta Province, which was opened last year, carried out its functions of attending to travellers and Government officials and their families in the area. The weekly return of infectious diseases occurring in the Region is sent by telegram to the Directeur de Sante Publique at Porto Novo. The French Authorities forward a copy of their weekly infections diseases and also forward a monthly bulletin of health information which includes details of infectious and communicable diseases. The smallpox epidemic in the Western Region during the year did not appear to have spread over the border.