he Lagos State Government Southwest Nigeria, has explained that the decision to decentralise over 300 Primary Health Facilities was part of an effort to improve healthcare delivery across the state.
This was made known by Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu while speaking at the official commissioning of Atlantis Paediatric and Multi-Specialist Hospital in Lekki.
He noted that the decentralization will not only enhance efficiency and improve the quality of care but also serve as a support system to general hospitals.
According to Sanwo-Olu, the decentralization process involves upgrading facilities and training staff to provide better services.
He added, “We have done something that no other state has done. We’ve sort of decentralized our primary health facilities. So, we have about seven new permanent secretaries that are all medical doctors.
“What we have done is to unbundle all our PHCs so that there can be health access and turnaround in some of PHCs, and we have over 330 of them.
“We are trying to scale up so that they won’t just be consulting, they can support what we’re doing in our 30 or so general hospitals.”
Sanwo-Olu also boasted that his administration has built more hospitals in the last four years than during the previous ten years combined.
He said his administration has begun the construction of the biggest paediatric hospital in sub-Saharan Africa, adding that he is committed to improving the state infant and maternal mortality index.
