A joint team of experts on Friday said Nigeria’s readiness to prevent, detect and respond to public health threats has increased to 54 per cent.
The experts said the score increased from 39 per cent in 2017 to 54 per cent in 2023. They noted that this means that Nigeria has 54 per cent capacity in public health security.
The experts said this at the end of the five-day second JEE for International Health Regulations Core Capacities in Abuja.
A Joint External Evaluation (JEE), according to the WHO, is a voluntary, collaborative, multisectoral process to assess a country’s capacities to prevent, detect and rapidly respond to public health risks whether occurring naturally or due to deliberate or accidental events.
The Lead external evaluator and the Senior Adviser of the World Health Organisation Global JEE Secretariat, Dr Hendrick Ormel said Nigeria made a lot of progress to have moved to 54 per cent, but noted that a lot still needs to be done.
In his address, the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa said, Nigeria has achieved the pass mark but stressed that there is a need to focus on the identified gaps for improvement.
Following its first JEE, Nigeria is one of a handful of countries to undertake a second round of the JEE, utilising the JEE 3.0 tools.
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