Earlier this year, we wrote a blog wondering aloud about the N701Million (USD5M) allocated to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that year. We wrote at the time; "we could neither find a physical address nor a website". We were criticised by some colleagues for not doing enough due diligence to establish the existence and functioning of this institution. So, we recently went in search of the office and found the headquarters on 50 Haile Selassie Crescent Asokoro, Abuja. When we announced this on twitter the first reply we got was:
@nighealthwatch wow! Great i was wondering too if this agency actually exists in Nigeria but they need to be more active. Kudos guysWe can also confirm that the NCDC has a new office as well as a reference laboratory, soon to be completed in Gadua Abuja (as presented in the Minister of Health's mid-term report). Sadly however, despite the recent distress among Nigerians about the paucity and inaccuracy of the information emanating from several government officials in reference to the on-going outbreak of Ebola disease in West Africa (see: Rumors of Ebola in Nigeria: the blind leading the blind?), the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control still does not yet have a stand-alone website. Should you Google Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, what appears is the country page for the American Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Nigeria.
The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control
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