By Princess Etuk
Stakeholders in Nigeria’s livestock sector have called for the integration of private veterinary laboratories into the country’s animal disease surveillance system to strengthen disease detection, improve reporting, and enhance preparedness for disease outbreaks.
The call was made on Thursday in Abuja at a stakeholders’ meeting on strengthening Nigeria’s veterinary laboratory network, where participants stressed the need for collaboration among federal, state, local government, and private veterinary laboratories to improve surveillance data collection.
The Director of Infectious and Transboundary Animal Diseases at the National Veterinary Research Institute, Clement Meseko, said effective disease surveillance could only be achieved through collaboration among all actors in the veterinary laboratory ecosystem.
“It’s very interesting that at this time we are putting up this to discuss the veterinary laboratory network, particularly with respect to how there can be collaboration between the government laboratories, the national laboratories, the state laboratories, and more importantly, the private
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