**1. Introduction**

The quest to ensure public health is at the front burner of all government around the world over but these efforts cannot be a reality if Sub-Saharan Africa and less developed countries of the world does not take center stage in health planning of the advanced countries. COVID-19 outbreak has proven that no country is immune to health catastrophe and poor nations face more devastating consequences in major disease outbreak, as a result of poverty and inadequate public health infrastructure and lack of up to date medical record, it implies that many emerging diseases are not well documented and reported, coupling this scenario with devastating effect of noncommunicable diseases that has been ranked highest killer in some African country [1]. As a result, large-scale initiatives, updated medical records, training, and disease outbreak reporting are needed to help support the effort of various governmental and nongovernmental agencies in establishing accessible public health services. Potable water supply in Sub-Sahara Africa is an uphill task due to inadequate policy formulation to cover poverty and disease-laden rural dwellers. A decade ago, Ebonyi State in Nigeria was devastated by guinea worm infestation of water sources that it needed international support for eradication [2, 3], yet, it is possible that in local water source**s,** inorganic and organic chemical pollution was not taken into account by the relevant authorities in the same way that the guinea worm was.
