The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Mohammad Ali Pate, has stressed the need to strengthen the country’s public health capabilities to be able to respond and ensure that outbreaks are stopped before they become epidemics or pandemics.
Speaking at the launch of the book, “An Imperfect Storm,” co-authored by the former Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention , Dr. Chikwe Ihekwazu , and his wife, Vivian Ihekweazu, yesterday, in Abuja, the minister noted that the world has been witnessing pandemics from time immemorial, adding that pandemics have always resulted in the transformation of societies.
“In the late 90s, we had Nipah. Then there was SARS in 2003. Then there was the pandemic flu of 2009, there was Middle East Respiratory Virus in 2012, Ebola in 2014, Zika in 2017, and in 2019 we have COVID. The Niger State government has assured of working tirelessly to ensure that all healthcare services aimed at supporting mothers to breastfeed, including counselling and skilled lactation support, are optimised.
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