The Lagos State Government has officially signed a concession agreement with one of Africa’s leading integrated technology enablers, Interswitch, through its Healthtech subsidiary, Interswitch eClat, to develop and manage the Lagos Smart Health Information Platform (LAGSHIP). Nigeria’s healthcare industry remains grossly underfunded with several other challenges, lacking a truly national/integrated framework for healthcare service delivery due to fragmentation among health stakeholders. A recent report from Knight Frank estimates Nigeria would require about $82 billion of investment in health-care assets to reach the global average.
Healthcare institutions continue to struggle with daily operations due to a myriad of constraints and process inefficiencies. The foregoing is the backdrop against which this latest public-private partnership milestone championed by the Lagos State Government is being launched with a view to positioning Lagos, Nigeria’s largest economic hub as a model for sub-nationals in strategic healthcare delivery interventions. The Executive Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu highlighted the significance of the Lagos State Smart Health Information Platform Project as one unprecedented in Nigeria till date.
The Governor, in his remarks asserted that “The signing of the Concession Agreement between the Lagos State Government and Interswitch for the implementation of the Smart Health Information Platform (SHIP) is a ground-breaking development w.