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Lagos state government has committed
to upgrading and building a robust healthcare infrastructure that is
fit-for-design and meets best international standards. The state's Commissioner
for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, disclosed this at a recent media forum
where he discussed the strategies in place to effectively mitigate the COVID-19
pandemic risks.
Lagos state is the epicenter of
coronavirus infections in Nigeria accounting for over 70% of the over 100,000
confirmed cases in the country.
Giving an update on the approach that has been taken by the state's Ministry of Health, the Commissioner said there was an elaborate plan of monitoring and surveillance to ensure that Lagos with an estimated population of over 20m people, averts full-blown spread of the virus.
He said the state would continue to
use non-pharmaceutical interventions and expand its contact-tracing activities
across the state.
Prof. Akin Abayomi also noted that it
will take the cooperation of the citizens in Lagos to achieve success in
curbing the second wave of the virus.
The epidemiologist said there have
been remarkable efforts in strengthening of the Public-Private Partnership
(PPP) arrangements, which was captured in the "Lagos Rapid Response" initiative
that saw an increase in COVID-19 testing with private laboratories.
He informed stakeholders that Lagos state
was exploring broad-based medical reform that would reposition its healthcare
service to take better care of citizens.
Lagos state according to Abayomi was embarking
on investments in healthcare research to support service delivery quality.
In 2021 the state was allocating N106bn to the Health Sector, while in
2020 the budget allocation to healthcare was N97.26bn. The budget was to cater
for the construction, refurbishment, and equipping of healthcare facilities statewide.
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