HEFAMAA outsources monitoring of health facilities to private organisations

• Published date: 12 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA), a Lagos State agency charged with the responsibility of monitoring both private and public health facilities to ensure registration and accreditation of all health facilities in the state, has announced the outsourcing of monitoring of health facilities in Lagos to reputable private organisations.

Dr. Yemisi Solanke-Koya, Chairman, HEFAMAA Board, disclosed this at a news conference in Lagos on the outsourcing of the agency's activities to eight private organisations: E-clat Healthcare Limited, SPC Patterns Consulting, Realms Healthcare Consulting Services, IFS Healthcare, McOlivia Consulting Limited, AOI Training and Consulting Limited, Insight Health Consulting and Vhelar Consulting Limited. She said the agency is a regulatory body set up by the Lagos State Government to effectively promote quality healthcare for all Lagos residents and that the agency is responsible for setting minimum standards for the operation of all categories of health facilities in Lagos State as well as the accreditation, inspection, monitoring and licensing of health facilities.

Solanke-Koya announced that the agency had outsourced the monitoring of health facilities in Lagos State to reputable private organisations. 'This will commence immediately with a six months' pilot phase, which will be reviewed for better delivery at the end of June 2023. The objective of the outsourcing is to increase the monitoring coverage of health facilities so as to ensure improved quality of healthcare delivery to the residents of the State,' she stated.

She added that the private organisations, which were...