Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria

Capacity

Tertiary

600 beds

Inpatient and outpatient, operating 24 hours. One of the larger bed bases in Lagos.

Staffing by cadre

1,813 clinical staff

Doctors

882

Nurses & midwives

Lab scientists

Pharmacists

Dentists

164

HIM officers

Services on site

5 of 5

Laboratory

Imaging & radiology

Pharmacy

Ambulance

Mortuary

How care flows here

One of Lagos’s 17 highest-level hospitals

Healthcare in Lagos works like a ladder. Everyday care happens at the state’s 894 local clinics and health centres. Anything they cannot treat is sent up to one of 507 bigger general and specialist hospitals. The hardest cases of all end up at a top-level hospital, and Lagos has only 17 of those. This is one of them.

17 tertiarythis hospital · the hardest cases

507 secondarybigger hospitals

894 primaryeveryday care

Record

24/11/1/3/1/0005

Facility level

Tertiary

Ownership

Public, State Government

Address

1-5, Oba Akinjobi Way, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos

Operating hours

24 hours

Operational status

Functional

Coordinates

6.59054, 3.34196

Veligraph ID

AF-NG-24-11-1-3-1-0005

Source agreement

Current

Nigeria Health Facility Registry (v2)Federal Ministry of Health · beds, staffing, services, contacts2026

GRID3 Nigeria cross-referenceLocation confirmedmatched

Record first publishedFrom the 2026 national register import; changes will be noted hereAug 2026

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