Reddington Hospital is a private hospital in
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 ...
,
Nigeria
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.
Establishment
Reddington commenced operations as a health care provider in 2001 with the establishment of the Cardiac Centre, in
Victoria Island
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which was affiliated with
Cromwell Hospital in London. The Lagos hospital was established in 2006.
It has another facility in
Ikeja
Ikeja is the capital city of Lagos State in southwestern Nigeria. Its population, as of the 2006 census, is 313,196. Prior to the emergence of military rule in the early 1980s, Ikeja was a well planned, clean and quiet residential and commercia ...
.
Milestone
Reddington pioneered Nigeria's first Digital Cardiac Catherization and Angiography suite, a specialty in heart care.
Services
The hospital provides the following services:
obstetrics
Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a surgi ...
and gynaecology
Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined are ...
* paediatrics
*surgery (endoscopy and day-care)
*ophthalmology
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An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a medic ...
*ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) surgery
*radiology
*Gastroenterology
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(digestive diseases)
*psychiatry
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Initial psych ...
References
External links
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Private hospitals in Lagos
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