The National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology (NCLE) is under the supervision of the Department of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health. Established in 1998 NCLE serves the Ministry of Health in 02 key areas, supporting the national notifiable disease surveillance and reporting system and outbreak response and providing services as the national public health microbiology laboratory. In addition, NCLE is the National Influenza Center and a WHO accredited Measles, Rubella and Japanese encephalitis virus testing laboratory. As secretariat of the National Laboratory Committee, NCLE is tasked with implementing the National Policy and Strategic Plan for health laboratory capacity building, which are essential tosustainable health system development.
