Disease Spread: Nigerian Government To Strengthen Medical Laboratories Nationwide

Name: Disease Spread: Nigerian Government To Strengthen Medical Laboratories Nationwide
Uploaded: 2019-09-07
Channel: Fred Brains
Description: Facts from the Center for Disease Control, CDC indicates that it takes an estimated 36 hours for disease outbreak to become a global pandemic. To this end, nations of the world as well as international humanitarian agencies have continued to put in e

By Fred Brains Last updated Sep 11, 2019

Facts from the Center for Disease Control, CDC indicates that it takes an estimated 36 hours for disease outbreak to become a global pandemic. To this end, nations of the world as well as international humanitarian agencies have continued to put in efforts to ensure the control of disease spread by strengthening medical and pharmaceutical laboratories worldwide as well as the constant review of the Global Health Security Agenda. Speaking at the 55 Annual Scientific Conference and Workshop of the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, pledged the commitment of the government towards adopting and deploying strategies to strengthen the nation’s medical laboratories as well as control disease spread. The occasion provided platform to make case for a robust medical laboratory infrastructures in the country. The theme of this year’s summit is; ‘Global Health Security: The Medical Laboratory Agenda For Sub-Saharan Africa’.