Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State said that his administration would build an International Infectious Disease Research Centre in Yaba, adding that, it would serve as part of Lagos COVID19 response and other infectious disease preparedness in post COVID19 era.
He explained on Sunday that his government plans to construct a purpose-built International Infectious Disease Research Centre at the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba.
Sanwo-Olu disclosed this at the official launch of the 150-bed Mainland Infectious Disease Isolation Centre donated by Private Sector Coalition Against COVID19 (CACOVID) to Lagos State for COVID19 response.
The governor said the State government would also erect a purpose-built Doctors’ Quarters and permanent isolation wards to ramp up capacity for any infectious disease outbreak in Lagos as part of the global master plan for the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba.
His words: “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 centre; the designs are out already.
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“We will also be building 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”, he said.