Compendium of Management of Polio Emergency Operations in Nigeria

11 Years of eHealth Africa’s Management of Polio Emergency Operations Centres and Other Related Projects.

This topical review provides an overview of the Polio Emergency Operation Center (PEOC) project, initially implemented across eight states in Nigeria before three more EOCs were added in 2024. Designed as part of a coordinated effort to control and eliminate the spread of the poliovirus in Nigeria, the project involved multiple stakeholders and innovative strategies.

In 2014, the EOCs began supporting non-polio-related activities, using lessons from polio eradication efforts to strengthen other disease surveillance initiatives. The EOCs supported the Ebola outbreak response in 2014, limiting transmission to only 20 cases in Nigeria. They have also supported routine immunization programs and outbreak responses for other infectious diseases, such as measles and meningitis, and the Lassa Fever outbreak in 2015.