Lagos State Government has restated its commitment to improving the state of maternal and emergency healthcare services for the benefit of the people.

This commitment was made by the Lagos State Ministry of Health during a capacity building programme for nurses and midwives at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Ikeja.

The programme with the theme, "Emergency Obstetrics Care (EMOC) and Good Labour Ward Practice," is a combined theoretical and practical one designed to refresh the memories and skills of maternity unit workers and also to further instill in them the culture of evidence based medicine.

Addressing a gathering of participants and media practitioners present at the opening of the training scheme for health workers in the state, Project Consultant, Dr. Jonathan Odia, explained that the administration of Governor Babatunde Fashola has seen the need to provide such a knowledge based programme for workers in the health sector.

He noted that the world is at the dawn of a new era when alternative trainings are needed by workers in hospitals to save lives that are brought to them, and it is on this note that such training is coming at this point in the life of the administration in the state.