Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has inaugurated the Society for Household Well being (SFH) Innovation Hub to speed up high quality well being options for households throughout Nigeria.
Sanwo-Olu, represented by Prof. Akin Abayomi, Lagos state Commissioner for Well being, inaugurated the hub sited at Ikeja, on Friday.
The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) experiences that the constructing, unfold throughout three flooring, was to honour the reminiscence of certainly one of SFH’s founders and a former Minister of Well being, Prof. Olikoye Ransome-Kuti.
Sanwo-Olu stated that innovation had all the time been a driving drive behind developments in well being, revolutionising the prevention, prognosis, and therapy of ailments
In keeping with him, the state and nation have alarming well being statistics that ought to hassle all residents, including that the majority tools, medicine, and vaccines used within the well being sector are imported.
“We’re simply starting to make a dent into the pharmaceutical house. We’re starting to make extra styles of prescription drugs in Nigeria, significantly in Lagos and Ogun State.
“However, you understand, these are easy medicine. We wish to now begin transferring into extra complicated formulation and drive the business round vaccine growth.
“Manufacturing vaccines is backed by an entire tradition of analysis, innovation and growth,” he stated.
He stated that SFH and the Ministry of Well being are collaborating on some challenges plaguing the general public well being setting, particularly within the space of malaria and fevers.
“We’re at a reasonably superior stage in growing sure key methods to deliver down the incidence of malaria in Nigeria to try to even get to the purpose the place we will speak in regards to the elimination of malaria from this setting.
“We’ve heard that sure components of Africa are near elimination of malaria.
“That’s not going to occur simply by praying and by questioning how you can do it.
“It’s going to occur by collaborating, by being intentional, by interested by the issue and looking for the answer,” he stated.
Sanwo-Olu stated the SFH lab would assist ideation, collaboration and contribute to enhancing nationwide ecosystems that allow the systematic use of innovation to advertise well being fairness.
The governor recommended SFH for the initiative and its honour of Prof. Ransome-Kuti, whom he described as a visionary chief who remodeled the nation’s well being sector.
Equally, Dr Amina El-Amin, Commissioner of Well being, Kwara, stated the hub offered a chance for bodily and mental synergy to sort out the challenges within the Nigerian well being house.
El-Amin famous that strategic public/personal collaboration was crucial to homegrown options that will advance native manufacturing and high quality healthcare providers.
“So, in Nigeria, we wish hubs like this, the place individuals can ideate, co-create, share concepts, bounce concepts off each other, check their concepts, and execute them earlier than they’re taken out and deployed into the sphere.
“That is the best way we’ll reach Nigeria. Not by importing concepts that weren’t designed for our peculiarity and for our individuals,” she stated.
Commenting, Prof. Ekanem Braide, Board President of SFH, stated the hub would function a co-creation house to host start-ups and suppose tanks to speed up affect and digital health-driven options.
“The SFH Innovation Hub is a testomony to our perception that well being options have to be anchored in creativity, co-creation, and collaboration.
“In in the present day’s quickly evolving well being panorama, we face challenges that demand adaptive, forward-thinking options.
“This hub will function a significant incubator for concepts that not solely tackle our most urgent well being points but in addition empower communities to take cost of their well being,” Braide stated.
Additionally, Dr Omokhudu Idogho, Managing Director, SFH, stated the hub was on the core of its sustainability and partnership journey and targeted on main analysis, and high quality supply of innovation to scale.
Idogho stated the hub would strengthen nationwide ecosystems to help systematic, impactful innovation that promotes well being fairness.
He stated that by offering normative steerage, scaling impactful concepts, and fostering collaborative studying, the innovation hub would maintain and disseminate well being options which are constructed to final.
“Our groups listed here are targeted on driving modern well being concepts to scale up options, all the best way to our SFH Entry Care, our round expertise platform offering digital options and telemedicine to our huge Provide Chain initiative, which is remodeling provide chains to enhance sub-national and growth companions procurement and public well being techniques.
“Our Innovation hub is a good platform to place our experience to work with our companions to scale up our affect,” he stated.
