Eko Hot Blog reports that Lagos State General Hospitals and Primary Health Centres are currently providing free antenatal care and child delivery services to pregnant women resident in Lagos State.
The Lagos Ministry of Health made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday.
The health ministry said the free services are part of the relief measures that the state government rolled out to cushion the hardship being faced by residents as a result of fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government.
Pictures released by the Lagos government showed many nursing mothers who had been attended to for free.
Recall that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had directed general hospitals to offer free antenatal care and child delivery services; normal and cesarean section, to expectant mothers as part of announced palliative measures to ease the burden of the fuel subsidy removal on Lagosians.
Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Dr. Olusegun Ogboye, who monitored compliance to the directive at the Ifako-Ijaiye and Isolo General Hospitals over the weekend, noted that the implementation of free medical services will help improve maternal and child health indices in the state.
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