29/01/2026
Today, we held an Environmental Health Facility Annual Review Meeting to assess the facility’s performance over the year just ended and to identify priority areas for improvement in 2026. From a Disease Control Surveillance Assistant perspective, discussions focused on disease surveillance and reporting, particularly for vaccine-preventable diseases (suspected AFP and measles NNT cases), as well as cholera, dysentery, typhoid, measles, and COVID-19. The team reviewed the timeliness and quality of IDSR reporting, early outbreak detection, prevailing environmental risk factors, and community-level prevention measures.
The meeting also reviewed the performance of other key programmes, including the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Tuberculosis (TB), Food Safety and Hygiene (FSH), Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), and Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) interventions. These discussions highlighted the importance of community engagement, health education, and positive behaviour change in strengthening disease prevention and control efforts.
Overall, the annual review emphasized the need to further strengthen surveillance systems, improve coordination across programmes, and enhance rapid response mechanisms to improve disease prevention and environmental health outcomes as we move into 2026.
