By Yemi Adeleye
Lagos – In a bid to ensure improved service delivery at the grassroots, the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Health Services says it will commence an on-the-spot assessment of Primary Healthcare Centres across the state in February.
The Chairman of the committee, Mr Segun Olulade, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday that the exercise aimed at ensuring standards and efficiency at the primary level.
He said the state government was committed to reducing the number of patients frequenting higher healthcare givers by improving facilities at the primary level.
“We are going to do an on-the-spot assessment of our primary health centres across the state in February. Just on Tuesday, 14 of them were inaugurated.
“It shows the commitment of the Lagos State Government to the primary healthcare centres.
“That is one area we are focusing on to reduce the influx of people to both the secondary and tertiary healthcare providers.
“We are going to strengthen to our primary health centres by seeing what they do as healthcare provider closest to the people.
“We are going to be doing a lot on our primary health centres and I can assure residents that in the next two or three weeks, they will see a lot of facilities at the primary level being renovated and upgraded.”
Olulade added:“Before June, a minimum of over 50 primary health centres will be upgraded. They will be completed in the next six months and equipped.”
The lawmaker, representing Epe II, said attention would be given to coastal and rural areas as part of efforts to bring health to the doorsteps of residents in the state.
