Sacred Heart Hospital, Lantoro Abeokuta is the first Nigerian hospital[1] which was established in 1895 by the Catholic Church mission to Abeokuta[2][3] through Reverend Father Coquard as a result of the leprosy epidemic that affected Egbaland between 1857 and 1859. It is located at Itesi, Abeokuta.[4] Louisa Rodriguez was a Brazilian nurse who assisted Coquard for about 36 years serving as the director of nursing.[5] Coquard had one year of instruction as a medical student before he joined the missionary.[6]
The hospital was relocated to Lantoro in 1971 by Archbishop Aggey.[7]
It is a 300 bedded hospital that serves the southwestern part of Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. It trains nursing students and postgraduate doctors in Family Medicine.[8]
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- ^ Hogan, Edmund M. (2012). Cross and Scalpel: Jean-Marie Coquard Among the Egba of Yorubaland. African Books Collective. ISBN 978-978-081-287-4.
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- ^ Abeokuta: Home of the Egba. VBO International. 1985.
- ^ Olusanya, Abiodun; Oguntoyinbo, Omobolaji (2020). "The Place of Transcervical Amnioinfusion in the Management of Preterm Premature Rupture of membranes Remote from Term in a Private Institution" (PDF). London Journal of Medical and Health Research. 20 (1): 17.