The World Health Organisation has designated two teaching hospitals as sentinel sites for surveillance of diarrhoea caused by Rotavirus and meningitis caused by bacteria on children.
Data from University Teaching Hospital, Enugu and the University Teaching Hospital, Ilorin would help share and collect information on the burden of rotavirus and pneumococcal diseases in Nigeria, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency said in a statement.
It would also help assess the impact of introducing vaccine for those diseases into routine immunisation. Five sentinel sites have been used in new vaccine surveillance, but only the teaching hospitals in Enugu and Ilorin got WHO approval to serve as watch sites for rotavirus and other diarrhoeal diseases that affect children aged under five.
Executive director of the agency, Faisal Shuaib, said government would support the two sites to “further reduce morbidity and mortality from vaccine preventable diseases.”
Teaching hospitals at universities of Benin, Bauchi and Lagos also serve as sentinel sites.
By: Judd-Leonard Okafor
Daily Trust News
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