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Sanwo-Olu, Wife Celebrate Eid-El-Kabir with Patients, Health Practitioners at Hospitals

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his wife, Ibijoke, on Friday visited the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, Broad Street and some other hospitals in different parts of the State, to celebrate Eid-el-Kabir with in-patients and health practitioners. The Governor and his wife while at the various hospitals chatted with the patients and the medical […]

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Sanwo-Olu Commissions First Indigenous Medical Face Mask Factory in Lagos

…Mulls Long-Term Loan Facility For Health Investors …Governor Procures 250,000 Face Masks, Donates 30,000 To Secondary Schools Students The first indigenous medically graded face mask manufacturing company has opened in Lagos State. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday, opened the O-Care Medical Face Mask factory in Odofin Park Estate, Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of the […]

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Lagos Develops Blueprint for Healthcare Infrastructure

As part of efforts towards improving health service delivery in Lagos, the State Government has engaged a consultant to develop blueprints for healthcare infrastructure across primary, secondary and specialist facilities. The Honourable Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this on Wednesday at the Lagos State Council on Health Meeting, noted that the blueprints […]

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SS3, TEC3 Students in Lagos State to Resume on Monday 3rd August – Edúcation Commissioner

In line with the Federal Government’s pronouncement that students in exit classes across the country should resume on Tuesday, 4th of August, 2020, for revision classes ahead of their forthcoming examinations, the Lagos State Government has directed all the SS3 and Technical Studies (TEC3) Students in both day and boarding schools in the State to […]

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LASIAMA Renovates 20 Public Schools, 12 Health Centres

…. Set To Complete Renovation of 23 Schools in Second Phase As part of efforts towards developing government infrastructure to actualise one of the pillars of the T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda, the Lagos State Infrastructure Asset Management Agency (LASIAMA), has completed renovation of 20 schools and 12 health facilities, while on course to complete maintenance work in […]

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USE OF RDT KITS FOR COVID19 TEST IS ILLEGAL IN LAGOS – ABAYOMI

· Warns Against Patronizing Unauthorized Health Facilities The use of Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) Kits for COVID19 testing in Lagos is illegal until we can validate RDT kits that actually work, the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has reiterated. Abayomi who stated this today at a news briefing on COVID19Lagos Response explained that RDT […]

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‘MAGU’S CURIOUS WAR ON MEDIA TRIAL’

Inside Stuff With MARTINS OLOJA‘THE GUARDIAN’, SUNDAY JULY 19, 2020, BACK PAGE It is quite significant to note that Citizen Ibrahim Magu’s very first assignment when he was released from detention last week was writing to Justice Ayo Salami panel about his ‘trial by the media’. The suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial […]

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LASG Commences Recruitment of Medical Professionals into General Hospitals

Lagos State Health Service Commission has announced the commencement of recruitment exercise for medical professionals into General Hospitals across the State with the opening of a recruitment portal: Jobs.lagosstate .gov.ng for interested applicants on Wednesday, 15th July, 2020. According to a release issued by the Commission today, the decision to fill the vacant positions in […]

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PRIORITISING WOMEN AND GIRLS SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NEEDS AMIDST COVID-19 PANDEMIC

As Nigeria joins the World to celebrate this year’s World Population Day, Development Communications Network (DevComs) has called on the Nigerian government to provide for the needs of women and girls in line with this year’s World Population Day (WPD) which focuses on raising awareness of women’s and girls’ needs for sexual and reproductive health […]

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REPOSITIONING PHCs: OGUN TAKES DELIVERY OF HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT

Towards repositioning Primary Health Care service delivery, the Ogun State Government has taken delivery of a set of hospital equipment, consisting of Anti Shock Garment, Wheel Chair, Autoclave and Oxygen Concentrator Machines and Delivery Bed, donated by the Gardner’s Social Impact Initiative. Receiving the donations at the Primary Health Center, Sango Ota, the Deputy Governor […]