Fashola pledges support for increased surgical capacity in West Africa
By: Chioma Umeha Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Monday pledged to support any initiative aimed at increasing middle management surgical capacity across West Africa saying such increase in trained middle management surgeons would help check capital flight as a result of people seeking treatment abroad from the sub-region. Governor Fashola, who spoke when he hosted Council Members of the West African College of Surgeons during their courtesy visit at the Lagos House, Alausa, said the objective of such initiative would be to keep the people within the sub-region whenever there was a need for any surgical intervention. Addressing the Council Members led by the College President, Professor Herve Yangni- Angate, he restated his support to every initiative by the College to improve health services in the country. The governor said: “I believe that the objective which you have so clearly articulated is to keep our people, at the very worst, within the sub-regio