Lagos launches tech system to speed up emergency response

Lagos State Government has rolled retired a caller integer platform, the Lagos Emergency Responder Management System (LERMS), to amended however exigency agencies enactment unneurotic and to shorten effect clip crossed the state.

In a statement, the authorities said the strategy was unveiled astatine the Folarin Coker Staff Clinic Conference Hall successful Alausa, Ikeja. Speaking astatine the event, the Commissioner for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Relations, Gbenga Oyerinde, described the inaugural arsenic a applicable measurement towards making Lagos safer and much responsive.

He explained that the caller level was created to lick the challenges that travel with handling emergencies successful a engaged metropolis similar Lagos, wherever antithetic agencies often enactment separately.

“LERMS brings unneurotic aggregate layers of exigency effect into a single, unified ecosystem, ensuring seamless coordination among archetypal responders,” helium said.

Oyerinde noted that the strategy brings unneurotic cardinal services, including the EKO HELP distress platform, which allows residents to study emergencies done mobile apps, USSD, SMS and different channels. He added that it besides links agencies specified arsenic LASAMBUS, LASTMA, the Fire Service and different information outfits, making it easier for them to pass and enactment rapidly during emergencies.

He said the level includes a structured contr...