Good Heart Specialist Hospital (also known as Good Heart Hospital or abbreviated GHSH) is a private healthcare facility in
Rivers State, Nigeria
Rivers State, also known as Rivers, is a state in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria (Old Eastern Region). Formed in 1967, when it was split from the former Eastern Region, Rivers State borders include: Imo to the north, Abia and Akwa Ib ...
. The hospital's owner is said to be a consultant cardiologist at the
University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital
Background
University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital was established in April 1980 and was officially commissioned by the federal government in 1985, it is a major tertiary-care teaching and research facility in Rivers State. It is as a resu ...
.
Location
Good Heart Specialist Hospital is situated on Evo Road, in the phase 2 of
New GRA
The New Government Reserved Area (New GRA) is an upper middle class mixed-use neighborhood of Port Harcourt, the capital and largest city in Rivers State.
Geography
New GRA is bordered by D-line and Diobu to the south, Rumueme to the west, Ru ...
, about 1.3 km (0.8 mi) from
D-line, Port Harcourt
D-line is a major business and urban residential area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Its geographical coordinates are 4°48'8" North, 7°0'10" East. The neighborhood is sometimes spelled "D/Line" and has a zipcode of 500261.
The Roman Catholic Di ...
. The coordinates of the road on which the hospital building is sited are: 4°49'10.8"N, 7°0'3.5"E (Latitude:4.819675; Longitude:7.000985).
In the news
The hospital was temporarily closed in August 2014 as were several medical centers where such cases were reported, after it was alleged that one of its patients, a doctor named Ikechukwu Enemuo, had died from
Ebola
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses. Symptoms typically start anywhere between two days and three weeks after becom ...
. Reports revealed that Enemuo had contracted the virus while attending to an Ebola-infected
ECOWAS
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS; also known as in French and Portuguese) is a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa. Collectively, these countries comprise an area of , and in ...
staff who flew into Port Harcourt from
Lagos
Lagos (Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the List of cities in Africa by population, second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national ca ...
for treatment in an unnamed hotel. The diplomat, however, recovered after being treated. Unfortunately, Mr. Ikechukwu Enemuo died after contact with the infected diplomat. He was rushed to GoodHeart Specialist Hospital where the medical director promptly alerted government agencies of the situation. He later died of the disease.
See also
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List of hospitals in Port Harcourt
List of some hospitals and medical centers in the city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Acron Medical Consultants // 1 Acron Drive, Behind Plot 28 Stadium Rd, GRA Phase IV, Port Harcourt
, , Shield Specialists Hospital// The Pain Care Center.
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References
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Private hospitals in Port Harcourt
Health facilities that treated Ebola patients