Objectives | - To enhance reporting from the ambulatory health system - To monitor communicable diseases by time, place and person - To detect alerts and outbreaks at local level |
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Sources of data | - Medical centers and dispensaries of the Ministry of Public Healht MOPH - Medical centers and dispensaries of the Ministry of Social Affairs MOSA - Other governemental medical centers and dispensaries - Medical centers and dispensaries of various Non-Governemetal Organizations NGO - Field medical units |
Target diseases and syndromes | - Vaccine preventable diseases: acute flaccid paralysis, measles, rubella, pertussis (whooping cough) and mumps - For other communicable diseases: acute diarrhea, bloody/dysenteric diarrhea, cholera, acute jaundice, acute respiratory infection (including flu-like illness), unexplained fever, scabies and leishmania - Others: asthma, accidents/injuries |
Guidelines | Medical center and dispensaries based surveillance guideline: Ar, En |
Reporting form | Weekly reporting form |
Results | - Latest weekly national bulletin |