Sacred Heart Hospital, Abeokuta

Sacred Heart Hospital, Lantoro Abeokuta is the first Nigerian hospital which was established in 1895 by the Catholic Church mission to Abeokuta through Reverend Father Coquard as a result of the leprosy epidemic that affected Egbaland between 1857 and 1859. It is located at Itesi, Abeokuta. Louisa Rodriguez was a Brazilian nurse who assisted Coquard for about 36 years serving as the director of nursing. Coquard had one year of instruction as a medical student before he joined the missionary.
The hospital was relocated to Lantoro in 1971 by Archbishop Aggey.
It is a 300 bedded hospital that serves the southwestern part of Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. It trains nursing students and postgraduate doctors in Family Medicine.