Lagos to build Int’l infectious disease research centre at Yaba

... gets new 150-bed solation centre

Governor Babajide SanwoOlu of Lagos State has disclosed plans to construct a purposeful built international infectious disease research centre at the existing Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba. The research centre, apart from enhancing the capacity of the infectious disease hospital, will also better position the state to respond to any outbreak of an infectious disease in post Covid-19 era. The centre, Sanwo-olu said, would be complemented by doctors’ quarters and permanent isolation wards to ramp up capacity for infectious disease as part of the global master plan for the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital. The centre is being planned, as the state has received a newly constructed 150-bed isolation centre to accommodate increasing number of Covid-19 positive cases in Lagos. The facility has been donated by the Private Sector Coalition Against COVID19 (CACOVID). “Our infectious disease hospital is seeing a lot of brand new things coming up and we have committed that this hospital post COVID19 would see a purpose built international infectious disease research center; the designs are out already. “We will also be building a purpose built isolation wards; we will ramp up our infrastructure and capacity and not wait for a pandemic to come on us again. We will be building doctors’ quarters in this facility as part of our global plan for the Yaba Infectious Disease Hospital,” said Sanwo-olu. While commending CACOVID for donating the 150-bed isolation, Sanwo-olu noted that the facility would add to the state’s capacity and enable it do a lot more in the battle against Covid-19.