DETERMINED to improve on the state's health sector, the Lagos State Government has acquired over 14.51 hectares of land on which it is proposing to site four medical villages, all in Eti-Osa Local Government Area.The schemes are Moremi Medical Village, where nine hectares of land has being acquired and it was located at Moremi Private Estate Developers Scheme, Ogombo.The second one is christened 'Lekki Scheme 1 and Lekki Scheme 11, Medical Villages. For the Lekki Scheme1, a land size of 0.43 hectares has been earmarked and the location is the Lekki Peninsula Scheme1, Lekki Sub-region, while 5.08 hectares of land was also earmarked for the Lekki Scheme 11 Medical Village. The fourth location is Sangotedo Medical Village, also in Eti-Osa, where a reasonable hectare of land is also available.The layout design consists of major land uses that include institutional recreational, commercial, circulation land use and varying number of plots. Besides, these medical villages and land use analysis showed that they are the creation of community solution to healthcare delivery.In Moremi Medical Village, the land use analysis showed that medical use area is 5.18 hectares, (almost 58 per cent of the total land mass, commercial 0.43 hectares (4.78 percent), public institutions, 0.70 hectares (8.44 percent of total land area) and recreation and riads2.63 hectares (almost 20 per cent of land area).Similar analyses made on other three locations, revealed that in Lekki Scheme 11, medical use is 64.04 per cent, institution, 12.40 per cent, commercial, 2.36 and circulation, 21.20 per cent, while that of phase 1 is not detailed.Speaking on the project, the General Manager, New Town Development Authority (NTDA), Dr. Adeyemi Isiba, said it is a master-planned sites and services scheme zoned only for medical use.According to him, the project is to provide a one-stop-shop idea that saves time and money. 'The intention is to make Lagos State a medical tourist centre that provides all medical needs locally within the medical village without traveling abroad anymore', he said, saying that private/public partnership would avail in the arrangement.The villages, when completed, would provide a serene environment with soft landscaping elements, tarred roads, paved walkways and functional drainage facilities.These will also be complimented by provision of adequate infrastructural facilities within the location potable water and power supply, security post 'and other facilities that would make the place one of the finest place to receive quality services when it come to issue of health', said Isiba.On the modality for establishment of the villages, the NTDA general manager said interested partners who may want to buy into the scheme would receive reasonable moratorium from government. These include easy facilitation of documentation, provision of the necessary infrastructure and facilities and possible review of the existing charges on the plots of land.Presently, the locations carries varied price tags. While that of Sangotedo is yet to be fixed, Moremi attracts N7, 700, per square metre in the residential and N15, 400 per square metre for the commercial.In Lekki phase 1, price for residential area is N19, 740 and N39, 480 per square metre for the commercial, while Lekki Phase 11 attracts N10, 640 per square metre for the residential and N21, 280 commercial.
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