World Meningitis Day: the importance of early treatment

Published on : 26/04/2022 – 09:00

On World Meningitis Day, April 24, we take stock of this infectious disease that attacks the brain and spinal cord and can kill or disable the most often young children.

The highest rates of prevalence of this disease. The speed of care is a key element for the survival of the patient. How to recognize the first symptoms?

• Pr Christophe Rapp, infectious disease specialist atAmerican Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, in the Paris region. President of the French Society of Travel Medicine
• Flavio Da Pozzo, a promising young footballer, saw his professional career hopes shattered by a serious meningococcal infection. Survived, but had to have a leg amputated
• Dr. Apoline Sondo Ouedraogo, Ancient Head of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department of the University Hospital Yalgado Ouedraogo in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases at the Health Sciences Training and Research Unit of Joseph Ki Zerbo University.

At the end of the program, we take stock of the pharmacists’ strike that took place on Friday, April 22, 2022, throughout Senegal. We talk about it with the Dr. Assane Diopchairman of the Syndicate of Private Pharmacists of Senegal.