Author: Abdoulaye Kay

ASHENEWS reports that an Epidemiologist, Dr Muhammad Shakir Balogun has warned that the absence of a reliable health surveillance system in the country could reverse progress made by Nigeria toward the control of infectious diseases. Balogun, who is the Resident Advisor, Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme, in a presentation delivered to Fellows and participants in the first African Disease Reporting Fellowship (ADReF), decried the absence of critical tools needed to institute a robust surveillance system that could provide the needed data and information for preventing some of the eliminated diseases from recurring.  The Epidemiologist and Medical Microbiologist pointed…

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