Sixteen years of free trauma emergency care, built on the belief that timely treatment should never depend on what a patient can afford.
The Lagos State Accident & Emergency Centre was established by the Lagos State Government to mitigate the toll of injuries and deaths from road traffic crashes, collapsed buildings, fire incidents, and other emergencies across the State.
Rather than leaving injured victims to navigate emergency care on their own means, the State government made a deliberate choice: provide free emergency care to anyone who needs it, and carry the responsibility of that access itself. This ensures every injured person brought to the Centre receives timely care comparable to global best practice — regardless of the size of their pocket.
Opened 10 March 2010. Since then, LASAEC has attended to over 41,000 injured victims across Lagos State, maintaining a mortality rate of just 1.4% — among the lowest achieved by any trauma centre globally — while continuing efforts to drive it lower still.
The World Health Organization estimates that 30% more people die from injuries than from Malaria, Tuberculosis, and HIV combined — a statistic that underlines why methodical, well-trained trauma care matters so much.
Care at LASAEC follows the principles of Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), developed by the American College of Surgeons. This means identifying and treating the known causes of death in trauma victims in a fixed, methodical order — ensuring efficiency and the best possible outcome, every time, for every patient.
Positioned along the busy Alausa end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway — one of the highest-traffic corridors in the region.
Able to serve trauma victims across the corridor from the Shagamu Interchange in Ogun State through to Alausa.
Trauma doesn't keep office hours, and neither do we — emergency care is available around the clock.