A professor of statistics at the Ekiti State University Ado-Ekiti, Ayantunji Adeleke has advised the government and other stakeholders to embrace the use of accurate data in tackling and curtailing the spread of infectious diseases in the country.
He suggested the adoption of stochastic models often known as random sampling to estimate numbers of people carrying infectious diseases and save lives in record time.
Professor Adeleke made the recommendation while delivering the 58th Inaugural lecture of the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, titled, ‘Life Expressed in Stochastic Processes: Towards Statistical Solutions to the Problematics’
While backing up the suggestion, he explained that the random process which is adopted by the developed world would address the delay often witnessed during data capturing of people living with various diseases in the country as well as give room for better preparation to curb the spread of such diseases.
He explained that the inability of the government to use proper models such as the stochastic means to identify people living with infectious diseases such as AIDS, Measles, Cholera, Tuberculosis was responsible for their spread as often witnessed in the country.
According to the professor of Statistics, excessive waste of time in hospitals or health centres may be avoided if stochastic models were applied, saying the models are solutions to real-life problems.
He said, “If the model is properly used to obtain the spread or spread rate of infectious diseases, this will help stakeholders and the government in taking drastic measures capable of curtailing the spread of infectious diseases thereby preventing economic burden as well as saving many lives of citizens.
Professor Adeleke called on relevant stakeholders to do everything at their disposal to prevent community spread of diseases, adding that health extension programmes such as immunization should be extended from the national level to the grassroots level, saying such would ensure infant survival rate.
He further recommended that ” more doctors should be employed in the health system centres so as to convert the most single-channel queueing into nukti-channel queue units in order to reduce the time wasted on queue.”
In his reaction, the vice-chancellor of the university, Professor Edward Olanipekun said the lecture was relevant and recommended the suggestions to the government at all levels towards addressing the spread of diseases in the country.
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