Under the steady-handed leadership of H.E. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, @officialABAT, our public health system is being strengthened, repositioned, and equipped for a 21st century that is certain to continue ushering in various levels of globalized health threats and emergencies, which our nation, at all levels of government, will be prepared for with the actions we are presently taking.
Disease surveillance and response would be entirely untenable without institutional cohesion between federal and subnational entities in the sector, and this is why the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control @NCDCgov operates effectively within the Sector-Wide Approach (#SWAp) framework of the Federal Ministry of Health & Social Welfare
@Fmohnigeria.
The NCDC has operationalized the Nigeria Preparedness and Readiness Alert System (#NPRAS)—a predictive risk-based platform for decision-making, while conducting structured risk assessments in 8 vulnerable states to inform subnational hazard profiles and achieve comprehensive donor alignment.
Aside from the provision of new disease surveillance and response infrastructure, over 325 Infection Prevention and Control (#IPC) focal persons from 95 tertiary hospitals and 214 secondary facilities nationwide are currently undergoing structured training to become certified IPC professionals, which serves as a major boost to Nigeria’s health security workforce.
I am pleased to share further insight into the present and future development of Nigeria’s rapidly evolving health security sub-sector in this briefing from my desk.
