Efunbo Dosekun is the Chief Executive Officer of Outreach Medical Services which runs 4 acute care Women’s and Children’s Medical Centres in Festac Town, Okota and Osapa,Lekki in Lagos State and Ogara in Delta State, over the last 14 years. Bed capacity in total is 80
bed. metropolis. The centres provide preventative and curative for babies, children, pregnant and women’s health service.

Dr Dosekun has over 40 years of clinical experience in Paediatrics/Neonatology both the UK and Nigerian healthcare system. Through Outreach Training and Development arm she has delivered around 40 workshops championing the re- training and skills upgrades for Nigerian healthcare workers in Paediatric/Neonatal Emergencies/Helping Babies Breathe/ Developmental Paediatrics and Health Service Management.

In 2021, Outreach Medical services in partnership with the Lagos State Health Management Board arranged training for 375 doctors and nurses by developing a Paediatric Emergency Workshop and Neonatal Emergency Workshop. This is the first time Lagos State government has contracted clinical training for such a large group of its clinical workforce to a private sector provider.

She is a Senior Fellow of the Nigeria Leadership Initiative, a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute of Leadership, Colorado and was the vice chairman of the Society of Emergency care practitioners of Nigeria.

Dr Dosekun is a founding partner of Vesta Healthcare Partners-a medical consultancy firm based in Lagos and London. Outreach Children’s Hospital was engaged in a PPP pilot project with Lagos State Ministry of Health in Year 2012-2015. This model of partnership in Child Health service delivery is the first of its kind in Nigeria. The hospital served as a Stabilisation centre for 1000 critically ill neonates from the public sector. The project lasted for 39 months.

She set up a charity called Anu Dosekun Healthcare Foundation which carried out an innovative programme in collaboration with Heineken Foundation in advocacy, awareness and free treatment of dangerous jaundice in newborn babies in Lagos West Zone.

Dr Dosekun is passionate about modernising the Nigerian health system in the public and private acute care space using the handle of human resource capacity building via relevant continuing professional development workshops. In partnership with Dr Zainubu Mudasiru -a Neonatal expert from the diaspora, they have launched a Neonatal Capacity Building initiative via a special purpose vehicle called Babies Matter Medical Clinics This initiative is to deliver Practical Neonatal workshops to birthing practitioners in the private and public sector 2 nd and 3rd tier maternity /neonatal space in Nigeria together with providing a 10
bed advanced neonatal care for preterm babies in Lekki.

Dr O. Helen Oluseun MB BS, Dip LIMH, MPH
Medical Superintendent, Outreach Women and Children Hospital, Festac.