Lagos NMA calls for dully equipped PHCs with doctors

Lagos State Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Babajide Saheed, has called for broad upgrades to each Primary Healthcare Centres, PHCs, insisting that each installation indispensable beryllium afloat functional, decently equipped, and staffed with astatine slightest 1 aesculapian doctor.

Saheed said strengthening superior healthcare astatine the assemblage level is captious to gathering the needs of underserved populations and easing the increasing load connected secondary and tertiary hospitals crossed Lagos State.

He explained that galore residents, particularly those successful densely populated and low-income areas, inactive deficiency entree to adjacent superior healthcare facilities. As a result, they are often forced to question agelong distances oregon beryllium connected substandard alternatives for basal aesculapian attention.

Speaking exclusively with newsmen, the NMA president reiterated his earlier presumption that the existing fig of PHCs is grossly inadequate for a authorities with a colonisation estimated astatine implicit 20 million.