Sacred Heart Hospital, Lantoro Abeokuta is the first Nigerian hospital[1] which was established in 1895 by the Catholic Church mission to Abeokuta[2][3] through Reverend Father Coquard as a result of the leprosy epidemic that affected Egbaland between 1857 and 1859.
[5] Coquard had one year of instruction as a medical student before he joined the missionary.
[6] The hospital was relocated to Lantoro in 1971 by Archbishop Aggey.
[7] 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.