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Soon, Sacred Heart Hospital, Abeokuta, Ogun State, believed to be the oldest health facility in Nigeria, will clock120 years. The foremost health facility was established in Egbaland in those days by white missionaries of the Catholic persuasion, and ever since, the facility has stood out as a beacon of hope to the Nigerian health sector. Many who frequent the hospital and can attest to this are happy that it has unrelentlessly cared and catered for many generations of Nigerians, a role its proprietors: the Catholic Church and by extension the Christian Health Association of Nigeria (CHAN) count as a mission fulfilled.

Recently, CHAN members from its headquarters in Jos, Plateau State and others from Zone D comprising Delta, Edo, Lagos, Ogun Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti states converged on Sacred Heart Hospital in Lantoro, to examine how several hundreds of hospitals in their care had fared in the past months.