If Gift Julius and her husband had been able to pay the N250, 000 demanded by officials at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), perhaps three of their children would still be alive. The couple lost their three children in a fire accident that ravaged their home. […]
Category Archives: Press
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Oct
Every bit of charity resonates a lifetime and helps to make the world a better place. Health Emergency Initiative (HEI) functions as the next of kin to the vulnerable patients in public hospitals by swiftly EMERGING to pay for treatment of emergencies’ victims. The aged are not left out of Health Emergency Initiative’s intervention programmes […]
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October is National Fire Safety Month and safety is everyone’s business no matter what you do, it is important that you consider the safety effect of your actions and inaction. Some days ago, a video went viral showing residents of Mile 2 scooping petrol from a petrol tanker. This could have resulted to a deadly […]
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Oct
Oct
Welcome to a brand new work week! Suddenness is a feature of emergency which can happen anytime and anywhere including the workplace. Hence, employers and workers may be required to deal with an emergency and the best way to protect workers is to strategically develop an emergency action plan to guide everyone in the workplace […]
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Oct
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Following the previous post on “ Impact of Effective Emergency Response”, we promised to keep you updated on what can you do to have coordinated effort with speed and accuracy during emergency response, without requirements of being certified. There are 3 basic Cs you can follow through in an emergency situation.The three Cs are: Check, […]
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Oct
Oct
The world is never short of good deeds to be done and there is never a time that is too late or too early to be good, Health Emergency Initiative (HEI) believes Aesop’s words that says “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted’’. Therefore, we faithfully work in saving lives, giving […]
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Accident is what it is because it is unplanned and unwanted, however accident is one of the inevitable of life. The 29th of August 2019 witnessed a fatal accident involving a BRT bus and a Dangote Truck at Ikorodu, Ogolonto that led to loss of lives and severely wounded individuals. Health Emergency Initiative intervened with […]
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Health Emergency Initiative (HEI) since its inception has been fully committed to providing succor to indigent patients by saving their lives and their beautiful dreams. One of the beneficiaries of HEI’s success story is Mr Gbagi Omotayo, a 55 years old man who was diagnosed with femoral fracture at Alimosho General Hospital, Igando. He had been […]
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Malnutrition accounts for 54 percent of child mortality worldwide, while Nigeria has the second highest burden of stunted children in the world, with a national prevalence rate of 32 percent of children under five years of age. An estimated 2 million children in Nigeria suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), but only two out […]
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The first month of schools’ resumption is gradually rolling off and we steadily proceed further ‘ember’ months where road safety officials have been preaching the gospel of drive safely, obey traffic laws, don’t drink drive, don’t receive use your phones while driving etc. Really, if you are to do a self-appraisal of yourself, can […]