Jan. 17, 2022 Lagos State Government, through the Lagos State Ministry of Health, is set to hold a mental health conference geared towards drawing attention to the importance of a multi-sectoral approach to providing improved mental health interventions for citizens. In a series of tweets on Monday, the State government noted that the conference is ...

Dec. 23, 2021 The Lagos State Government has appealed to Lagosians for understanding over the non-availability of Moderna vaccine at all vaccination centres in the state. The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi made the appeal in an Instagram message on Thursday, saying that the scarcity of the vaccine was temporary. “At the moment, Lagos ...

Dec. 20, 2021 … Holds Three-Day Retreat for Management Staff Lagos State Ministry of Health has developed strategic plans bordering on improved data management, strict implementation of regulations, income generation and budget performance, including budget drawdown and budget impact, to better position the State health sector for better service delivery in the year 2022. The ...

Nov. 23, 2021 …Increases Public-Private Vaccination Sites to 360 No fewer than 135 private health facilities have been enrolled into the Lagos State Government’s mass vaccination strategy programme targeted at vaccinating four million residents by December 2021. This brings to 360, the number of public and private vaccination sites in Lagos. The State Commissioner for ...

Nov. 5, 2021 The Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA) will on Monday, 8th November 2021 begin clampdown on unregistered health facilities in Lagos State. The Executive Secretary of the Agency, Dr. Abiola Idowu, speaking on Thursday on the planned exercise, tagged: “Operation Show Your License/Certificate of Registration”, disclosed that the State Commissioner for ...

Oct. 22, 2021 Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has enjoined all Lagos residents to embrace the State’s health insurance scheme in a bid to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The Governor, who made the call at the official media launch of the Regulation of the Lagos State Health Scheme (LSHS) organised by the Lagos State Health Management ...

Oct. 14, 2021 As part of efforts to ensure that the Africa continent braces up for the challenges posed by emerging infectious diseases and biosecurity threats, the Lagos State Government, in partnership with Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment Consortium (GET), is set to hold the seventh Annual African Conference on One Health and Biosecurity. The conference ...

Sept. 28, 2021 The Lagos State Government has disclosed that bed occupancy in the state’s public and private Coronavirus (COVID-19) care centres has dropped to 36 per cent. The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi made this known while giving an update on the state’s COVID-19 status in a Facebook post on Tuesday. According to Abayomi, ...

Sept. 23, 2021 Lagos State has launched a comprehensive nutrition programme to tackle cognitive and learning disabilities in newborns. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, rolled out the Mother, Infant and Child (M.I.C.H.) Initiative to address nutritional needs of pregnant women across the 57 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs). The scheme ...

Sept.16, 2021 The Lagos State Government is set to scale up interventions for endemic Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), especially Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth, in local governments and wards with the prevalence of the diseases, the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has said. Abayomi, who made this known on Wednesday at a Data Dissemination Workshop ...