Death is never endearing. It is never splendid or replete with bliss. Thus everywhere it visits, it devastates, like the brute end of a bloody saber. At its intrusion in the world of the former beauty queen, Helen Prest- Ajayi, it flipped the ravishing lady inside out and rendered her a pathetic husk of her former vibrant self.
News of her husband’s death fills the night like an unwelcome song of doom, reminding her of grief she would rather undo. Since yesterday, Helen has been a picture of deep-seated desolation and distraught.
Indeed, if money were a language understood by death, the deceased would be alive. But his time was up, as it were.
Her husband, the Founder of First Foundation Medical Centre, a Lagos-based indigenous medical company, Dr Tosin Ajayi, is dead. Ajayi, who trained as a medical doctor at the prestigious University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, died of Diarrhea in Lagos. The late medical practitioner, who also founded the Africa Future, had been sick for sometime.
A close source disclose that the family is planning to put together his burial immediately, especially with the plan by the FG to relax lockdown in Lagos by Monday, May 4.
It would be recalled that late Ajayi, on October 1, 2019, lauch a new campaign, under the Africa Future, to create awareness of the need for proper nutrition amongst pregnant women and newborn babies.
Late Ajayi holds a Masters of Science in Cardiology from the National Heart and Lung Institute, (NHLI) Imperial College, University of London.
Imbued with the unshaken belief that he had a mission to contribute to sustaining life’s most precious assets – health and development, he began his medical career at the popular General Hospital, Lagos where he rose to the position of Registrar in only four years.
He later moved to Kemta Hospital & Nursing Home, Lagos, which after leaving as Deputy Medical Director, he had helped develop into a multi-specialist general hospital with three major satellite units in less than four years.
In 1982, he decided to completely throw himself and resources into realising his desire to transform the healthcare landscape into an arena for truly serving its purpose – saving lives.
This led him to establish the First Foundation Medical Centre, a modern, first grade multi-specialist healthcare institution which for over two decades was a reference point in the provision of excellent medical services in Nigeria.
He later established the First Foundation Medical Engineering Company Ltd., the vehicle by which high-end medical technology through Sonography and the Computed Tomography (CT) was introduced in Nigeria through The First Foundation Medical Centre and a Federal Government programme respectively.
He has spent his time pioneering Information Technology, Health Reforms and Capacity building in Healthcare. It is also to his credit that Teleradiology was introduced in Nigeria in 2004.
A strong believer in the conscious development of the human mind, he had about 35 years extensive post qualification academic and intellectual activities in major specialties of medicine.
He also holds Diploma in Internal Medicine, from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London (1997); Diploma in Neurology from the Queens Square Institute of Neurology, University of London (1998); Diploma in Cardiology from the Imperial College, London.
