St. Nicholas Hospital is a private hospital located in

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. It was founded in 1968 by

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. The hospital is in a building of the same name located at 57 Campbell Street near Catholic Mission Street. It has other facilities at different locations in Nigeria. Their other locations are: St. Nicholas Hospital, Maryland, St. Nicholas Clinics, Lekki Free Trade Zone, St. Nicholas Clinics, 7b Etim Inyang Street, Victoria Island.

Description

The hospital's 14-storey mixed-use high-rise building (St. Nicholas house) was designed by

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. The building's users includes several companies' offices with modern amenities and multilevel parking. The building is adjacent to

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and Lagos City Hall. The hospital spans five floors of the building with an outpatient clinic and emergency services on the ground floor.

Milestones

St. Nicholas hospital has become a leading organ transplant centre in Nigeria, performing the first renal transplantation treatment, the first kidney transplant in Nigeria and the first paediatric kidney transplant in West Africa.

Services

*Nephrology *Medical and Emergency *Intensive Care *Preventive Health Screen *Colonoscopy and Endoscopy *General Medicine *Nursing care *Cardiology *Paediatrics *Antenatal Care *Diagnostic Imaging *Clinical Laboratory *Surgery *Radiology *Family Medicine *Physiotherapy *Obstetrics and Gynaecology *Oncology *Nutrition and dietetics *Dermatology *Dialysis *Pharmacy *Health Assessment

Fire incident

On 3 February 2014, 9:00 a.m. WST – At approximately 5:55 p.m. on Sunday, 2 February 2014, there was a fire on the 9th floor of the building. Urgent action was taken to extinguish the fire, the cause of which was believed to be an electrical problem.

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