Lagos govt converts COVID-19 isolation centre to LASUCOM

Lagos State Government has repurposed the erstwhile CACOVID Centre astatine Mainland Hospital, Yaba, converting the installation into an world centre for the Lagos State University College of Medicine, LASUCOM.

The authorities Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, disclosed this connected Wednesday during the handover of the renovated facility, saying the inaugural was aimed astatine expanding the grooming of healthcare professionals and helping to code the shortage of aesculapian unit successful the country.

Abayomi said the shortage had been worsened by the migration of healthcare workers and constricted capableness for section training, adding that the authorities planned to summation its yearly healthcare grooming intake from less than 500 students to astir 2,500 wrong the adjacent 4 to 5 years.<...