2023-11-14 18:50:27
BURKINA-SANTE-DENGUE-INFORMATION-MEDIAS
Burkina: The Central region hit hard by the Dengue epidemic
Ouagadougou, November 14, 2023 (AIB) – The Central region which includes the city of Ouagadougou has recorded 217 cases of death linked to Dengue disease since the start of 2023 and 55 deaths during of the week of November 6 to 12, indicated Tuesday, the Regional Directorate of Health and Public Hygiene of the Center.
According to the Sanitary Engineering Engineer of the Central Regional Directorate of Health and Public Hygiene, Dramane Coulibaly, Ouagadougou and the localities that make up the Central region have accumulated 217 cases of deaths linked to Dengue, out of a total of 421 deaths for the entire country, between January 1 and November 5, 2023.
The week of November 6 to 12, 2023 was particularly deadly for the region where 55 cases of death were reported, said Mr. Coulibaly.
He spoke on Tuesday in Ouagadougou, during the information and awareness meeting for media actors and platform facilitators on the response to Dengue in the Central region.
The sanitary engineer delivered two communications on the generalities of dengue fever and anti-larval control.
He recalled that Dengue is a neglected tropical viral disease transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected female mosquito, of the Aedes genus, which generally occurs during the day.
For the moment, in the opinion of Mr. Coulibaly, there is no effective treatment against the virus responsible for the disease, however, the treatment of symptoms and complications significantly reduces the mortality rate linked to the disease. Dengue.
He invited the population to avoid self-medication and the use of anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin, ibuprofen, diclofenac, which cause bleeding.
The regional director of Health and Public Hygiene of the Center, Dr Daniel Yerbanga spoke for his part of “an outbreak (of the disease) for a while” in the Central region, the most populous in the country. But “We are in the midst of a response to this disease,” reassured Dr. Yerbanga.
For him, communication is an important aspect to allow the population to have information related to the preservation, protection and treatment against Dengue.
More than thirty media people took part in the meeting to increase their knowledge of dengue fever, a disease first reported in Burkina Faso in 1925.
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