Lagos gives free health service at Agege

Source: The Nation Newspaper Published:Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Dr. Jide Idris

The Lagos State Government has said it expects no fewer than 25,000 people to benefit from its free health services comprising dental, eye and general surgeries under its Eko Free Health Mission.

Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris stated this yesterday, saying the free health service is on-going at the Oyewole Primary School, Mulero, in the Agege Local Government Area, and will end on Friday, January 29.

In a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the ministry, Mr Jide Lawal, the commissioner explained that the mission is a comprehensive health care initiative that covers primary, secondary and tertiary levels of prevention to take health care to the grassroots and the under-served areas of the state.

Idris observed that the mission is particularly significant because it assists the government in its efforts to reduce the number of untimely deaths, particularly as the beneficiaries of the programme include the most vulnerable members of the population at the grassroots.

He listed such beneficiaries as the elderly, children, youth and pregnant women who are prone to infections and other maternal and child health-related diseases.

The commissioner affirmed that the mission would supplement the state government’s formal health structures at the grassroots and offer alternative avenues of providing secondary medical care to people with different ailments within the time frame of operation.

According to Idris, to sustain and improve on the initiative, government is partnering with Health and Mission International, a non-governmental organization (NGO), to conduct a bulk purchase of health programme whereby free health care would be taken to the doorsteps of the citizenry.

Idris said similar missions had been undertaken at Alimosho, Epe, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos Island, Badagry, Lagos Mainland, Mushin, Ikorodu, Ajeromi Ifelodun and Eti-Osa local governments, among others, where no fewer than 350,000 people have benefited from screening and various forms of surgical interventions.

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