Inauguration of the Dogta-Lafiè reference hospital

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Extract from the article: The President of the Republic Faure Gnassingbé inaugurated the Dogta-Lafiè reference hospital on Wednesday 26 April 2023. This inauguration is part of the celebrations of the 63rd anniversary of Togo's independence.

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The President of the Republic Faure Gnassingbé inaugurated the Dogta-Lafiè reference hospital on Wednesday 26 April 2023. This inauguration is part of the celebrations of the 63rd anniversary of Togo's independence.

Togo is now equipped with a level 4 reference hospital. The operationalization of this hospital complex is now a palpable reality. This jewel illustrates well the noble ambitions of the President of the Republic which are translated in the roadmap 2025 notably the one contained in point 1 of axis 1 which consists in offering an identity and guaranteeing health coverage and access to basic services to all.

This is a hospital with more than 700 care units. Construction work began on 19 February 2019, just over 3 years ago. One of the main ambitions of this modern health centre is to reduce health evacuations abroad. « According to the provisional activity indicators, the Dogta-Lafiè Hospital, located in the centre of Greater Lomé, will eventually serve 30 to 40% of the Togolese population and will attract, due to its advantageous pricing and the quality of its health care offer, a new population that previously did not go to hospitals », explained Ingrid Awadé, Director General of the National Social Security Fund (CNSS).

« Among other things, it will make it possible to improve the supply of hospital care through high quality health services, to increase the level of technical facilities in order to limit the need for medical evacuations and their corollaries in terms of exorbitant costs, and to contribute to the improvement of the Togolese hospital system as a whole, thus participating in the conditions for the operationalisation of universal health insurance... », Ingrid Awade continued. 

For Professor Moustafa Mijiyawa, Minister of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Access to Health Care, this hospital will enrich the country's health pyramid. It is a government response to the demands of the Togolese population for quality health care.

Located in Togblékopé in the prefecture of Agoenyivé, the Dogta-Lafiè hospital is one of the largest and most vital for the well-being of the population.  The specialities offered by Dogta-Lafia are medicine and medical specialities, surgery and surgical specialities, obstetrics, paediatrics and neonatology, oncology, interventional cardiology, biology and anatomopathology laboratory, hospitalisation and an integrated pharmacy.

Thanks to its top-of-the-range equipment, it should serve a large part of the population and, because of its advantageous pricing and its range of care, attract a new population that previously did not go to hospitals. For the first year of operation, this hospital will receive at least 80,000 patients, according to the National Social Security Fund (CNSS), the project's sponsor.

The hospital has already been providing patient care since 1 March 2023, particularly in the areas of imaging, radiography and mammography. Its other services will therefore be operational after the inauguration.

As a prelude to the commissioning of this hospital, the Société de gestion hospitalière (SOGEHP), in charge of the operation, launched in June 2022, an operation to open up its capital coupled with a fund raising.  The aim was to diversify its shareholding to the tune of 49.975%, for a total capital of 25.01 billion CFA francs.

William O.