Ekiti State has been given an award of excellence as the best performing state in Nigeria on disease surveillance at the 4th Annual Disease Surveillance Meeting of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) held in Abuja.
The Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Oyebanji Filani, who made this known in Ado Ekiti said that the state earned the award through the commitment and untiring efforts of the government and the support of the leadership and staff of the ministry at ensuring health security of Ekiti residents.
Dr. Filani explained that the state had invested in health security through various projects including building a molecular laboratory to enable quick and accurate diagnosis and analysis of samples.
He added that the state has expanded its COVID-19 samples collection centres from 16 to 145 across all the local government areas of the state which had made COVID-19 testing very accessible to all residents in the state.
