Tomori, a former Vice-Chancellor of Redeemers University and Chairman, Expert Review Committee on Polio Eradication in Nigeria, told The Guardian that the country was lucky in 2014, adding that claims of preparedness by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control should be taken with a pinch of salt.His words: In spite of government assurances, I remain unconvinced that we are prepared for another Ebola outbreak.
“This means we are not ready to find, stop and prevent epidemics,” he added. Tomori, however, said the country was showing commitment to improving epidemic preparedness, such as enacting then bill establishing the NCDC and great efforts by NCDC to address identified gaps still remain especially at state and council levels in biosafety and biosecurity, preparedness, medical countermeasures/personnel deployment, emergency response operations, laboratory system and financing, among others.
“In July 2014 we didn’t have a National Reference Laboratory in Nigeria, We had a few laboratories in specific universities that have developed their capacities like the Redeemer’s University and the Lagos University Teaching Hospital , but we didn’t have a NRL. He added that the final part was about the response, saying that in the 2014 outbreak, Nigeria had to rely on two groups of people namely: Graduates of the Nigeria Field Epidemiology Training Programme and workers on polio response at the time through the Polio Emergency Operation Centre who were then repurposed for Ebola.
The surveillance has improved. If rats are the problem, how do we deal with that? It is not an hopeless situation! There are rats in other countries in Africa and globally. cc: FMEnvng NigeriaGov NGRPresident NCDCgov Chikwe_I
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