Public Health Emergency Management

Polio Emergency Operations Centers (PEOC)

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Project Overview and Objective

The Polio Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) project is primarily focused on enhancing coordination, transparency, accountability, and efficiency among various stakeholders involved in Polio eradication efforts in Nigeria.

The project's core objective is to streamline operations and foster a collaborative environment conducive to the elimination of the Circulating Variant Polio Virus Type 2 (cVPV2).

Project Impacts

  • eHealth Africa (eHA) facilitated the establishment of EOCs in 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) - Kano (established 2012), Katsina and Sokoto, (established 2013), Borno, Bauchi, Yobe and Kaduna (established 2014) and recently Kebbi, Zamfara, and Niger (established 2024) and FCT-Abuja (established in 2012)

  • Since 2022, the PEOCs have hosted 13,698 meetings across 10 states + FCTs. The category of the meeting included Public Health Emergency meetings (4,061), Public health campaign meetings (602), Polio campaigns meetings (967), Polio emergency meetings (2,103), and other meetings held for COVID 19, Routine SERICC/EOC, State debriefs etc (5,965)

Support to Polio Outbreak Control Rooms in Africa (POCR)

The Polio Outbreak Control Rooms (POCR) Project is a strategic initiative designed to bolster the ability of governments across Africa to combat Polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases. This is achieved through the establishment of Polio Outbreak Control Rooms and providing other relevant support as needed. The project's overarching aim is to enhance the responsiveness and effectiveness of health systems.
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eHealth Africa conducted 26  needs assessments across 10 African countries to ascertain the type, design, upgrade, or POCR setup required for a country.  In response to the needs assessment, eHA worked with the project partners and government stakeholders to achieve the following:

  1. Complete the setup of POCR sites

    eHA has cumulatively established 18 (9 in 2023) Polio Outbreak Control Rooms in several key locations across Africa, including Madagascar, Mozambique(Maputo Temporary), Mozambique(Misau), Tete Regional(permanent) in the renovation project while the construction project countries with completed project include: Somalia(Dhusamared), Somalia(Kismaso), Somalia(Mogadishu national).

  2. There are 26 POCR sites undergoing upgrade or construction

    These are continuation of efforts in renovating  POCR sites in 4 countries which includes: Congo DR, Congo Brazzaville, Somalia(Banadir), Zimbabwe and construction projects includes DRC Maniema, DRC Haut lomani, Somalia (Baidoa), Somalia(Jowhar), Somalia(Garowe), and DRC Tanganyika

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Vaccine Direct Delivery (VDD)

The Vaccine Direct Delivery (VDD) project, initiated by eHealth Africa (eHA), embodies the organization's commitment to developing people-centric and data-driven technological solutions aimed at enhancing health delivery systems for vulnerable communities. With footprints in 4 states (Bauchi, Kano, Sokoto and Zamfara states), VDD is designed as a third-party logistics (3PL) service, ensuring the efficient and timely delivery of vaccines and dry commodities from state cold stores directly to health facilities at the ward level across operating states. Leveraging eHA's proprietary LoMIS Deliver application and dashboard, the project streamlines operational planning, data management, and visualization.

Impacts from 2014 - Feb 2024

  • 52,807,397Potent vaccine antigens were successfully delivered

  • 33,307,680Dry goods were delivered across health facilities in 4 states

  • 25,809,542Children immunized  with life-saving vaccines

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