BY CHIOMA OBINNA

Lagos—IN another development, Lagos State Government has frowned on the inability of private hospitals in the state to furnish the government with accurate data, saying the data challenge is seriously affecting proper planning in the health sector.

Speaking in Lagos weekend, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, who declared it unacceptable, said the issue of data collection is a culture that the state government was particularly not happy with.

His words; “Without data, we cannot effectively plan. The data has to be of good quality and it must be all encompassing.  A lot of data that we collect are from the public sector. We do not have adequate data from the private sector and we are addressing that.”