Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, says Kano state scored forty-six percent on the surveillance assessment report that was conducted last year.
Deputy Director NCDC, Oyeladun Okunromade stated this during the Kano state joint Evaluation Report Dissemination meeting held in Kano.
The meeting was aimed to disseminate the finding of the assessment with a view to fine-tuning modalities of the way forward.
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Deputy Director Nigeria Center for Disease Control said NCDC supported Kano state to conduct health security assessments geared toward identifying the key gaps in the Health sector.
The Kano state team conducted a health security assessment between 15 to 18 of June last year with the assessment done using the adopted health security assessment tool for states in Nigeria as well as the W.H.O benchmark document.
Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie
