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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) is the national public health institute for Nigeria. [1] It is a federal government agency under the Federal Ministry of Health (Nigeria), with its headquarters in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.
Syndromic surveillance is the analysis of medical data to detect or anticipate disease outbreaks.According to a CDC definition, "the term 'syndromic surveillance' applies to surveillance using health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak to warrant further public health response.
Disease surveillance is an epidemiological practice by which the spread of disease is monitored in order to establish patterns of progression. The main role of disease surveillance is to predict, observe, and minimize the harm caused by outbreak, epidemic, and pandemic situations, as well as increase knowledge about which factors contribute to such circumstances.
Besides its Executive Office and a Science and Programme Office, the agency also has several divisions dealing with "policy, health diplomacy, and communication," "management and administration," "surveillance and disease intelligence," "laboratory systems and networks," "emergency preparedness and response," and " public health institutes and ...
The department sponsors the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development [9] and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, and acts as regulator through the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, [10] the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria [11] and the Institute of Public Analyst of Nigeria. [12] [6]
On 22 September 2014, the Nigeria health ministry announced, "As of today, there is no case of Ebola in Nigeria. All listed contacts who were under surveillance have been followed up for 21 days." According to the WHO, 20 cases and 8 deaths had been confirmed, including the imported case, who also died. [19]
A sentinel surveillance system is used to obtain data about a particular disease that cannot be obtained through a passive system such as summarizing standard public health reports. Data collected in a well-designed sentinel system can be used to signal trends, identify outbreaks and monitor disease burden, providing a rapid, economical ...
NIMR focuses on scientific area of research in biochemistry and nutrition, virology, vaccinology, immunology, health system and policy research, reproductive, maternal and childhood diseases, clinical science, microbiology, molecular biology Biotechnology and public Health, with studies that focus on diseases of greatest public health importance in the country.