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The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole has inaugurated the National Action Plan for Health Security for the Year 2018 to 2022, to strengthen response in 19 public health threats and improve response to health emergencies. Inaugurating the plan on Monday in Abuja, the minister said the implementation would help to entrench and resolve to build a safer and prosperous Nigeria. Adewole said that Nigeria had a Joint External Evaluations of the International Health Regulations in June 2017, which demonstrated many critical gaps that needs to be filled to protect the country from next major event.  According to the Minister,“the result of the evaluation we scored 40 per cent, which is failure, in medical school you need to score 50 per cent in medical school to record a pass."  “This result has helped to guide the NAPHS planning processes and to develop a roadmap for security strengthening in Nigeria,’’ he added.  Adewole noted that preparedness for health secu...

Poor response has been recorded at the conclusion of a four day immunisation programme in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The Health Educator and Social Mobilisation Officer of the locality, Lilian Oyetayo says the government should always engage community leaders for rural immunisation campaigns. Oyetayo said this in Bwari , while speaking on the 2018 December Polio Outbreak Response, being organised between December 15 and 18. She said that the input of the community process would particularly promote the inclusive participation of all stakeholders. Oyetayo, however, decried poor level of compliance and participation by the residents of Tudun-Rugan community in the polio response activity, which had somewhat frustrated the efforts of health officials to effectively carry out anti-polio immunisation in the neighbourhood. The Chief Imam of Sabongari Central Mosque in Bwari, Ibrahim Yusuf said that it  ignorance is the residents of the community t...