‘The Nigeria centre for Disease control has identified low funds as one of the major obstacles frustrating the implementation of the National Action Plan for Health security’
The NCDC Director -General ,Dr ifedayo Adetifa said this while presenting a paper at a two day retreat on COVID 19 and health security in Nigeria.He talked about the NAPHS being poorly funded and as a result, poorly implemented.The paper was titled, “National Action Plan for Health Security: Challenges of Implementation and Potential Areas where Advocacy is needed.”
“The impact of COVID-19 is huge. The estimated cost to the global economy is 28 trillion dollars by 2025. Having NAPHS is great, effective implementation is a must,” Adetifa said. Earlier, the organisers said the two-day retreat was to brainstorm strategies to strengthen accountability and response at national and sub-national levels for COVID-19 and health security.They noted that lack of advocacy was one of the key missing gaps in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.“This is also necessary to ramp up vaccination, testing and treatment, and local vaccine production,” the organisers said. 
He also called for sustained private sector investment, community engagement and regional cooperation together with transborder collaboration.
