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Africans Enthusiastic About New CDC
Our recent
article reporting on the creation of an African version of the US CDC
prompted an outburst of comment from our readers. Here are excerpts
from some of the letters and comments we received.
This is novel and welcome. Highly commendable. The initiative should
be implemented to the best standards possible. It will surely benefit
mankind.
Sylvanus Welle
sylvelle2002@yahoo.com
I am really excited about this post and what US CDC is
planning to do… It will
be great to be updated on this so we can assist in whatever way we
can.
Tom Aba Daniel
dtomaba@gmail.com
This couldn't have come at a better time than now. It is a welcome
development which will strengthen the health systems in African
countries.
Ejoh, Ojong Ojong
ohjays2003@yahoo.com
This is wonderful idea and this partnership will go a long way in
strengthening the health system in Nigeria and other African countries
especially now that West Africa and the world are trying hard to
control the outbreak of EBOLA epidemics.
Odo Chukwuemeka
aodo@afenet.net
This is a very good idea for CDC to establish the Surveillance
Emergency Operation Centres in West African Countries in strenghtening
surveillance system and outbreak investigation activities for
immediate control measures in place and data generated for immediate
public health actions. SEOCs recruited should be based on public
health experiences of personnel and field epidemiologists as earlier
mentioned to reduce and minimize field errors. The officers at these
centres should have proper understanding in respect of surveillance
activities, outbreak investigation, vaccines preventable diseases, and
the non-communicable diseases in our environment. A unit can also be
created in this SEOCs to handle non-commmunicable diseases because
most of these diseases are reemerging in the society such diabetes,
cancer, heart diseases and hypertension etc.
Ayanleke Halimatu Bolatito
aayanleke2@gmail.com
This is a laudable innovation. The creation of an
African CDC will strengthen public health systems in Africa and build
capacities for public health emergency preparedness among
practitioners…I am therefore optimistic that the African CDC with a
coordinating center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, will be a blessing to
Africans and together we will fight our common enemy - "emerging and
re-emerging public health diseases"
Olawuyi Kayode Abraham
abkay2008@yahoo.com
It's good and welcome development to African
epidemiological capacity in surveillance and outbreak response.
Hamzat Umar Muhammad
hamzaumar752@yahoo.com
It's indeed a welcome development for Africans, a great
opportunity. Let us harness the potentials.
Dr. A.S.Umar
drjuma72@yahoo.com
A wonderful and revolutionary idea, highly welcomed.
IBRAHIM MOHAMMED KAITA
ibrahimkaita@yahoo.com, kaitaibrahim2014@gmail.com
As
an offshoot of lessons learnt in the recent EVD outbreak, African CDC
should be designed as 4 subregional operational Epi-centres
coordinated by a regional Epi-centre. Each subregional operational
centre obtains information/data from African countries within its
subregion, analyses interprets with dashboard mechanism, provides
support for informed decisionmaking through data, alerts the
coordination centre and feedback/feed forward in managing outbreaks of
events or disaster in the subregion. It also informs the coordination
Epi-centre when need for deployment of rapid response team/force
arises. The coordination Epi-centre plans and harnesses all resources
(including the lab component & lab network for final characterization
of agents involved) for response and rehabilitation in the affected
communities. This model would graciously alleviate the challenges
encountered during outbreaks and facilitate response toconsequently
and tremendously reduce morbidity and mortality caused by the
outbreak. Hence, it is a laudable concept.
Badaru Sikiru Olanrewaju
badaru2001@yahoo.com
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