JUST IN: Nigeria's health security rises by 15% in five years

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A joint team of experts on Friday said Nigeria's readiness to prevent, detect and respond to public health threats has increased to 54

“Develop an accountability framework and Standard Operating Procedures for intra and inter-sectoral coordination and communication including the security apparatus, the private sector, and civil society.”

“This JEE has come at the right time. We now have new ministers that are going to be in office from Monday, and this is the time to use the recommendations for short and long-term plans. We also know that the government led by President Bola Tinubu has a health agenda that covers broadly a lot of overlapping areas that were identified as gaps like universal health care, strengthening primary health care, digital health coverage, and health security.

The PUNCH reports that Nigeria conducted her first JEE in 2017, using the JEE 1.0 tool which gave a readiness score of 39 per cent. JEE is a voluntary multi-sectoral process and one of the four components of the IHR monitoring and evaluation framework which involves a diverse team of experts, collectively evaluating a nation’s preparedness and response capacities across 19 technical areas, under the guidance of relevant Ministries, Departments, and Agencies.

 

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