Lagos moves to enhance health workers’ capacity to combat hepatitis

The Lagos State Government has commenced a four-day residential training programme aimed at equipping medical officers in secondary health facilities with advanced hepatitis care strategies.

The training, which kicked off on 25 November in Lekki, Lagos is organised by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Saving One Million Lives Programme for Results (SOMLPforR).

The Director of Disease Control, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Victoria Egunjobi, said the training would “equip medical officers with adequate knowledge and skills to manage patients with viral hepatitis in general hospitals across Lagos state.”