2023-08-15 14:58:33
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The Orange Burkina Faso Foundation officially launched the 2023 cardio-pediatric surgery campaign on Saturday August 12, 2023 in Ouagadougou. The sum of 30 million CFA francs was mobilized for 9 open-heart surgeries and one closed-heart surgery for the benefit of children from modest social backgrounds.
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Cardiovascular diseases constitute a public health problem in Burkina Faso and by extension the third cause of evacuation. Moreover, 1% of children born, according to Dr. Adama Sawadogo, cardio vascular surgeon at the University Hospital of Tengandogo, are carriers of a heart defect, ie 7000 new cases per year.
Dr Adama Sawadogo cardio vascular surgeon at the University Hospital of Tengandogo
In addition, he adds, 12% of annual mortality is from cardiac causes. In some cases, intervention is necessarily necessary, but the costs are exorbitant. ” Currently at the University Hospital of Tengandogo, the cost even if it remains inaccessible to the average Burkinabè family, these costs are significantly lower compared to those of evacuations, since around 3,000,000 to 3,500.00 FCFA, one can operate a heart in complete autonomy at the University Hospital of Tengandogo “, he informed.
Ibrahim Hema, Executive Director of the Orange Foundation
Given the high cost of such an intervention, the Orange Burkina Faso Foundation, in order to relieve vulnerable families, has decided to take charge of all the care for certain vulnerable children. According to Ibrahim Hema, Executive Secretary of the Orange Burkina Faso Foundation, this initiative is in line with one of the three areas of the Foundation.
Indeed, health is an important part of the activities of the Foundation, which campaigns for equal opportunities. “For several years, we have been interested in everything related to the health of mothers and children, kidney failure and certain cancers.
For 2023, a budget of 30 million FCFA has been mobilized for the care of ten children requiring heart surgery”. Moreover, the children concerned are between 0 and 15 years old. Justifying himself on the selection criteria, Ibrahim Hema argued that it was based on the medical emergency and the vulnerability of the patient. ” Initially we hadn’t gone over a number. We were on a budget and the rest of our exchanges offered us two choices.
Fund less expensive closed-heart operations for patients whose vital prognosis is less committed and much more expensive open-heart operations for patients whose vital prognosis is very serious over the next quarter or semester. Together with the medical team, we opted for open-heart surgery in order to urgently save 9 children whose parents have no financial resources for their child’s operation. “, he explained.
For this first phase, the Orange Foundation collaborated with the NGO La Chaîne de l’espoir, which facilitates the acquisition of consumables. As a reminder, the Orange Burkina Faso Foundation has existed since 2017 and has invested more than 2.5 billion CFA francs in education, health, culture and solidarity (humanitarian and digital).
Aminata Catherine SANOU
Burkina 24
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