HSCL’s Support to the Basic Health Care Provision Fund’s Ministerial Oversight Committee Through a grant from the Gates Foundation, HSCL is supporting Nigeria’s Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) Ministerial Oversight Committee. This support aims to streamline the Committee’s administration of the Fund by assessing, designing, and deploying solutions to improve its Monitoring and Evaluation,…
LSHS (Ilera Eko) performance review A cross section of participants at the performance review meeting With support from Health Systems Consult Limited, Lagos State Health Management agency held a performance review session of the Lagos State Social Health Insurance scheme on 28th October 2022. The objective of the session was to enable the agency to…
Update on HSCL’s implementation of community-based delivery of a basic package of nutrition services in Abia state. The ANRiN project is a performance-based intervention led by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGoN) aimed at addressing malnutrition in twelve (12) states, including Abia state. The project aims to achieve this goal by increasing target beneficiaries’ access…
Validation and Dissemination of the Lagos State Health Facility Assessment report. The Honorable Commissioner for Health Lagos State flanked by other high-level stakeholders at the report dissemination As part of its technical assistance to the Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA), HSCL conducted a baseline assessment of health facilities in Lagos State. The objective of…
Scale-up Phase of the Community Based enrolment Activity. Based on reviews of the pilot phase of our community-based enrolment activity, which involved the engagement and deployment of 100 Community Based Enrolment Officers (CBEOs) who worked in five pilot priority LGAs (pilot) enrolling informal sector populations into the Lagos State Health Scheme, the SP4FP project launched…
Launch of the expanded LSHS Benefit Package. A cross section of stakeholders with the Acturial study report. The Lagos State Governor Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, represented by the first lady, Dr. Claudiana Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, launched the new, expanded benefit packages of the Lagos State Health Scheme (Ilera Eko), on Wednesday, 16th February 2022. The benefits package…
Lagos State Health Scheme (Ilera Eko) launches new benefit packages that includes additional family planning, HIV and TB services The Lagos State Governor Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, represented by the first lady, Dr Claudiana Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, launched the new, expanded benefit packages of the Lagos State Health Scheme (Ilera Eko), on Wednesday, 16th…
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has appointed Dr. Emmanuella Olutoyin Zamba as the Acting General Manager of the Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA) Dr Zamba is a Medical Doctor, a seasoned technocrat, and a public health specialist with a bias for health systems strengthening. She resumed at her new role as the…
Prioritising Global Health Security Healthcare budgets, ideally, should reflect the level of priority governments give the health needs of citizens. Inadequate government budgets and public expenditure on health results in weak health systems with poor health indices such as high maternal, child and infant mortality, high burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and inadequate preparedness…