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Oba Wheno Aholu Menu-Toyi, Akran of Badagry Kingdom and Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos state during the 2nd Quarter of Year 2016 Town Hall meeting in Badagry, Lagos state.

Ambode earmarks N20b to revamp health sector
 
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Tue, 12 Jul 2016   ||   Nigeria,
 

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday said his administration has concluded plans to massively revamp the health sector through the injection of the sum of N10bn.

Governor Ambode, who spoke at the 4th Quarterly Town Hall Meeting held at the Muslim Community Praying Ground in Badagry, said modern equipment would be procured to facilitate treatment, while government would also invest massively in capacity building of the medical staff, all in a bid to provide world class health care for the citizenry.

“We have commenced a comprehensive action to rehabilitate and upgrade the facilities in all our hospitals. Modern equipment will be procured to facilitate treatment and we will invest in capacity building of our medical staff. We intend to spend over N10bn on our hospitals across the State before December this year.
We will recruit and train medical professionals in areas of rare specialization and special needs,” Governor Ambode said.

 

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