- We've been able to eradicate wild polioviruses in Africa.
I cannot imagine how Nigeria could have ever eradicated polio without the Emergency Operations Centers.
The polio EOCs now support COVID-19 outbreak response.
My name is Dr. Faisal Shuaib.
I am the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria's National Primary Health Care Development Agency.
Pre-EOC, we continued to see rising cases of polio in Nigeria without ability to stop this transmission.
The Polio EOC was able to bring people together, using one plan to find out where the virus is.
We're making sure that before the viruses spread, we're able to control it with vaccination efforts.
In an EOC, you have experts of that specific disease entity that you are trying to control or to eradicate.
You also have partners looking at the disease surveillance data,analyzing the data, asking tough questions.
