Sierra Leone Leads the Way in Africa With Fully Functional Electronic Disease Surveillance System
Published on: Tuesday 11 June 2019
Sierra Leone has become the first country in the WHO Africa region to fully transform its national disease surveillance system from paper-based to web-based electronic platform. As from today, electronic reporting of disease surveillance data is active in all public health facilities. The process, which was first piloted in just one district in 2016, was successfully rolled out to all the 14 districts and every government health facility countrywide.
News source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201906110947.html