The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said, the state has lost 14 health workers to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Abayomi said in a statement while accepting an extraordinary recognition award by the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Award in recognition of the government’s approach in the COVID-19 response and management.
“The state government was not resting on its oars in the fight against COVID-19, strategies were being executed to prevent a third wave of the disease in the state.
“During the fight against COVID-19; the wave one and the wave two; we lost some our colleagues, we lost 14 health experts; 12 doctors and two nurses. So, just to keep in mind that there are still people dying around the world from COVID-19.
“We want to say that we appreciate all the work that has been done by the frontline specialist and sacrifices that have been made; during COVID-19, some doctors and nurses and professionals never saw their family for four weeks; they were constantly on call working night and day trying to save lives,” Abayomi said.
Prof. Akin Abayomi bagged the award for the Most Outstanding COVID-19 State Health Commissioner of the year.
He also said the state government received the NHEA award to acknowledge the bravery of all frontline workers.
He noted that the state government had a policy of not receiving any award for COVID-19 response because efforts aimed at preventing and managing the global pandemic were still ongoing.
