Fashola Hands Over Fifth 24-hour Primary Health Care Centre

Fashola Hands Over Fifth 24-hour Primary Health Care CentreFashola Hands Over Fifth 24-Hour Primary Health Care Centre In Eredo
…Advocates appropriate use of referral system by citizens to optimize facilities
Jun 27, 2013 - Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Thursday handed over the fifth 24- hour comprehensive Primary Health Care Centre in Eredo, Epe stressing that with the commissioning, the government is laying the solid foundation for a medical care referral system predicated on a robust primary healthcare that goes from primary to secondary and tertiary levels.
The Governor who spoke at Eredo, Epe while handing over the comprehensive centre added that what the present administration seeks to achieve is to build a referral health care system that moves from a robust and intensive grassroots healthcare starting from 24 hour service delivery at the various local governments through to the general hospitals up to the teaching hospital.
"This is the only way we can fully integrate, we can redistribute our assets and optimize them, if we put all our eggs in one basket and everybody heads to Lagos State University Teaching Hospital LASUTH) in Ikeja for every small ailment, the healthcare system will not serve our need".
"A referral system that is aggregated through the primary to the secondary and tertiary level is the model that has succeeded in every part of the world and it is the model that we are committed to applying here to make healthcare a local success here", he explained.
The Governor stated that as the system take roots; there will come a time where no doctor will attend to any patient in the general hospital or in the teaching hospital unless such a person has a referral from the primary healthcare centre