Nigeria
Nigeria is the country where SORMAS was first developed and implemented, following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014-15. Initially deployed in a few states, national scale-up began in 2017 under the leadership of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), with strategic support from partners including the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI). The platform was rapidly expanded to all 774 Local Government Areas and all 37 states, including the Federal Capital Territory forming the backbone of Nigeria’s digital surveillance infrastructure, and supporting the response to outbreaks of diseases such as Lassa fever, monkeypox, meningitis, and cholera.
By integrating laboratory result reporting and interactive dashboards, the system further contributed to strengthening Nigeria’s broader disease surveillance and early warning capacity, moving the health system towards more integrated digital surveillance infrastructure.
By the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic, the dedicated COVID-19 module was already available for health officers to support real-time data capture, case tracking, contact tracing, and outbreak analysis, enabling the processing of millions of cases.
Currently, SORMAS continues to be the national disease surveillance and outbreak management system operated by the NCDC.
Learn more:
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.12.21071
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-40967-2_11
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ict/articles/10.3389/fict.2018.00007/full
Implementation Level
National
Implementation in
2015