6 January 2009
Lagos — A new dawn in morbidity and mortality healthcare, as well as in enhanced accurate case diagnosis and management begun in Lagos State yesterday, as the State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, commissioned the ultra-modern BT Paediatric/Family Medicine Complex and BT Health and Diagnostic Centre at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja.
According to the Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, the two projects were part of the encompassing four-year infrastructural development plan for the state health sector, in line with government's policy thrust as outlined in its 10-point agenda.
Idris also stressed the need to increase public access to quality, efficient and adequate basic social services and infrastructure, which he said, remained a focus of this administration.
Idris recalled that the great revolution in various aspects of the health sector was mid-wifed by the erstwhile Bola Tinubu administration, which commenced a massive developmental programme at LASUTH, with a view to improving the overall provision of healthcare to a level commensurate with the status of a tertiary health institution of international repute on one hand and also to ensure that LASUTH meets accreditation requirements of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria in terms of infrastructure, equipment and human resources for the continued training of medical and dental students on the other hand.
He said components of the initial phase of developmental project executed at LASUTH included among others, the remodeling/rehabilitation of the infrastructure of the clinics, Lagos State Emergency Service (LASEMS), male and female medical/surgical wards, theatre complex, morbid anatomy department, medical research centre and the dental centre.
Idris said other components include the equipping and furnishing of the research, histopathology and multi-purpose students' laboratories, so as to enable consultants and residents to carry out research activities in their various specialties, thereby enhancing position of the institution in the international academic community, as well as allow students benefit from hands on practical experimentation and facilitate appropriate processing of tissue samples to promote accurate diagnoses.
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