Osaze Imasuen
Practice Director
Oversees the running of the practice, its finances and its standard of service, and works closely with families arranging care for elderly relatives.
English, Edo
Our practice
Seventeen years of looking after Benin families
Willow Crest is an independent family practice, not part of a hospital chain. Decisions about your care are made here, by people who know you.
Osaze Imasuen
Practice Director
From the Practice Director
We measure ourselves by the families who stay
A practice earns its reputation slowly. It is earned when a grandmother's blood pressure is checked with the same care in her twelfth year with us as in her first, and when a son working abroad can telephone and be told honestly how his father is doing.
My responsibility is to keep Willow Crest steady: well staffed, well organised, fair in its fees and dependable in its records. Our doctors bring the medicine. I make sure that everything around them allows them to practise it properly.
If you ever have a concern about the service you receive, my office door is open, and I would much rather hear it from you directly.
Osaze Imasuen
Our history
How the practice has grown
- 2009
Two rooms on Ihama Road
The practice opens with two consulting rooms, a small dispensary and a waiting room of twelve chairs.
- 2012
The first home visits
At the request of families caring for elderly parents, a weekly home-visit round begins across GRA and Ugbowo.
- 2015
A laboratory on site
Our own laboratory opens, so blood sugar, kidney function and cholesterol no longer require a separate trip.
- 2018
The chronic disease register
Every patient with hypertension or diabetes is placed on a register, with scheduled reviews and reminder calls.
- 2021
Extension and step-free access
A ground-floor extension adds two consulting rooms, a treatment room and step-free access throughout the building.
- 2024
The Chronic Care Programme
The register becomes a structured programme with monthly plans, now followed by more than 600 patients.
How we practise
Principles we have kept since the beginning
Time
Appointments for older patients are booked at double length. Nobody is shown out mid-sentence.
Careful records
Every reading and result since 2009 is kept, so your doctor sees the trend and not only today's number.
Family involvement
With your permission, a son, daughter or carer may join consultations or receive updates by telephone.
Fair fees
Prices are published, explained in advance, and reviewed no more than once a year.
The team
People you will come to know
Our doctors are registered with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria and our nurses with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.
Dr. Eghosa Omoregie
Principal Family Physician
MBBS (UNIBEN), FWACP (Family Medicine)
More than two decades of family medicine in Benin City. Leads the Chronic Care Programme and its monthly reviews.
English, Edo, Pidgin
Dr. Ivie Ogbeide
Family Physician
MBBS (Benin), MWACP
Sees adults and children, runs our diabetic foot and eye screening, and has a gift for explaining results plainly.
English, Edo
Dr. Samuel Akhigbe
Medical Officer, Home Visits
MBBS (Ekpoma)
Leads the home-visit rounds and is a familiar face in many households across GRA, Ugbowo and Ugbor.
English, Esan, Pidgin
Itohan Ogbebor
Senior Nursing Officer
RN, RPHN
Coordinates programme reviews and reminder calls, and knows the readings of our longest-standing patients almost by heart.
English, Edo