As part of efforts to tackle the enormous health needs in Africa, health ministers have endorsed a new strategy aimed at creating an enabling policy environment for conducting and utilizing high quality research.
They made the endorsement at the the 65th session of WHO Regional Committee for Africa meeting in N’Djamena, Chad Republic.
A statement from the WHO Africa office quoted WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti as saying the strategy seeks to strengthen infrastructural and human capacity, provide effective coordination, improve utilization of evidence for policy and practice, and ensure adequate funding. According to the director, more researches needed to be done to find solutions to health challenges facing the Region. In a related a statement signed by the assistant director, press of the federal ministry of the health, Olajide Oshundun said its permanent secretary, Dr. Amina Shamaki and leader of the Nigerian delegation to the meeting called on the world to learn from the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak and the strategy used by Nigeria in its containment.
She said though Nigeria was one of the first countries affected by the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in West Africa, it also became the first to be certified free of the disease.
By: Ojoma Akor
Daily Trust News
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