Vanguard, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2019 —33 1.4b Facebook members predicted to die by 2100 One of the operating theatres in the new Ayinke House MNCH: Lagos raises bar with 170- bed Ayinke House facility By Chioma Obinna THE joy that comes with safe delivery will soon become a commonplace across communities in Lagos State and pregnancy will no longer be seen <strong>as</strong> a death sentence with the return of Ayinke House, the popular baby factory in the state. Interestingly, the new facility is back and better with 170-bed space and equipped with all facilities to cater for newborns. There are fears that the new Ayinke House now known <strong>as</strong> Institute of Maternal and Child Healthcare facility, may draw even women who have stopped childbearing to go back to the labour ward. Lagos State h<strong>as</strong> maternal death ratio of 450 per 100,000 <strong>as</strong> well <strong>as</strong> newborn death ratio of 37 per 1000 according to 2013 National Health and Demographic Survey, NDHS, and the newly commissioned Institute is geared towards promoting the health of the mother and child during pregnancy, childbirth and after delivery. It will also offer family planning and <strong>as</strong>sisted reproduction. The digitalized Institute of Maternal and Child Health under its emergency department h<strong>as</strong> 16 – bed capacity Acute Care ward, five Operation Theatres, 8 Labour/Delivery Suites, and side Laboratory, with three- Organ Support Capability, 30 Special care baby Unit spaces, 5 Neonatal Intensive Care Units, Main Laboratory with 3 additional Side Laboratories, Blood Bank, 30 incubators with automatic oxygen delivery capacity and neonatal life support. It also parades special care unit with 30 incubators 28-bed posts natal ward and five Transport Incubators with Oxygen delivery <strong>system</strong>, blood bank, mobile digitalized X- ray bay among others. To ensure safe deliveries of mothers, already, a total of 21 Consultant Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 45 Resident doctors, 5 Neonatologists, 10 Resident Pediatricians, and two Anesthetists, among others have been recruited. Prior to the upgrade and expansion of the facility, Ayinke house w<strong>as</strong> built by Late Chief Mobolaji Bank- Anthony in 1990 in honour of his mother, Madam Ayinke and donated to Lagos State Government. Before now, the old Ayinke House had 80-bed capacity with just one theatre with equipment at the facility old and obsolete. However, to sustain the philanthropy of Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, the State Government during the administration of Mr. Babatunde Raji F<strong>as</strong>hola, awarded the contract for the expansion and reconstruction of the facility. The project w<strong>as</strong> completed nine years after, courtesy of Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode. Governor Ambode said beyond the significance of the facility for the health sector, the Institute is a major contribution to the education sector <strong>as</strong> it becomes a veritable platform for medical students in the State University to enhance their exposure and experience with the top-cl<strong>as</strong>s medical equipment provided. Ambode said the new Ayinke House is completely digitalised with state-of-the-art medical equipment <strong>as</strong> well <strong>as</strong> information technology services supported by the State Ministry of Science and Technology. By Sola Ogundipe AT le<strong>as</strong>t 1.4 billion Facebook members have been predicted to die before 2100, <strong>as</strong> a result of which dead members on the social media platform could outnumber the living members by 2070. A new analysis conducted by researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (part of the University of Oxford, England) said the dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within 50 years - a trend that it said will have grave implications for the world's digital heritage in the future. From their analysis, the researchers said if Facebook continues to expand at current rates, the number of dece<strong>as</strong>ed members could reach <strong>as</strong> high <strong>as</strong> 4.9 billion before the end of the century. With an estimated 2.32 billion monthly active users <strong>as</strong> of the fourth quarter of 2018, Facebook is currently rated the world's largest social network. The predictions are b<strong>as</strong>ed on data from the UN, which provide the expected number of mortalities and total populations for every country in the world distributed by age, and Facebook data scraped from the company's Audience Insights feature. Nigeria is ranked <strong>as</strong> African’s highest internet using country, making up 27.4 percent of the continent's total usage. According to statcounter GlobalStats, Nigeria had 79.25 percent Facebook users between March 2018 and March 2019. Statistics also predict that the number of Facebook users in Nigeria is expected to reach 30.4 million, up from 22.4 million in 2018. Lead author of the analysis, Carl Ohman, a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute said the statistics give rise to new and difficult questions around who h<strong>as</strong> the right to all this data, how should it be managed in the best interests of the families and friends of the dece<strong>as</strong>ed and its use by future historians to understand the p<strong>as</strong>t. "On a societal level, we have just begun <strong>as</strong>king these questions and we have a long way to go. The management of our digital remains will eventually affect everyone who uses social media, since all of us will one day p<strong>as</strong>s away and leave our data behind. “But the totality of the dece<strong>as</strong>ed user profiles also amounts to something larger than the sum of its parts. It is, or will at le<strong>as</strong>t become, part of our global digital heritage," Ohman stated.
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