The World Bank set up the REDISSE project to cover all West African countries in the wake gaps shown by the 2014 Ebola outbreak in the region.
Speaking at the event, the Chief executive of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Chikwe Ihekweazu, said the project financed through a World Bank credit, "will focus on strengthening the disease preparedness and response architecture in these countries, including Nigeria".
According to him, the project which is jointly implemented by the federal ministries of health and agriculture would enable Nigeria have increased access to flexible and easily deployable resources.
"REDISSE is a project borne out of Ebola outbreak and the focus and objective is to ensure that we are better prepared to prevent and respond to outbreak of diseases.This will support the development of a robust public health emergency preparedness and response system, a main priority for NCDC.
"The World Bank credit facility also aims at minimising the economic consequences of disease outbreaks," he said.
In his remarks,Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole said it's first time such huge resources are put together to build relationship between animals and human beings knowingfully well that many of the diseases in human beings come from animals.
"The partnership will help to build capacity, able to predict and also monitor outbreaks so that we can respond appropriately.Also, build capaciy to diagnose and keep Nigeia safe.Its not peculair to Nigeria.
"This is actually Face 2 and at the end of the day, practically all countries in West Africa will keep to it.The we will now make the entire sub-African region safe", he said.
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