- The Ministry of Health is currently implementing a program to eliminate typhoid in Samoa.
- According to Dr. Tagaloa Robert Thomsen, the Assistant Chief Executive Officer (Health Service Performance and Quality Assurance – Medical and Allied Division), the program was initiated towards the end of 2018 and is called “improved surveillance and microbiological capacity for detecting and managing typhoid”.
- “Works will be conducted over a three-year period so starting from improving surveillance, and in terms of laboratory picking up the typhoid and then informing us, and then we go to the families and do contact tracing and collect samples,” he said.
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