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After the death of two people and the hospitalization of three others
A strange disease creates panic in A?n Bessem
Posted by Yazid Yahiaoui
the 15.08.2018, 11:00
It all began when, on August 8, the emergency department of AH Bessem, 26 kilometers south-west of Bouira, had received a patient from the commune bordering Raouraoua, who was showing signs of intoxication. , namely, vomiting and diarrhea.
According to the testimony of relatives of this patient, during four days, while the patient was still hospitalized, other family members who visited him, fell one to one patient and will be in turn hospitalized at the same level. EPH of A?n Bessem. On August 12, one of the five admitted and hospitalized patients died without anyone being able to explain to the family the causes of death.
Yesterday, the panic was at its height and the members of this family who all reside in Raouraoua had to alert all the media so that finally, the officials of the DSP deign to send a commission of inquiry and a prevention team on the spot.
The same day, an old woman who had fallen ill, less than two days earlier, also died, bringing the number of deaths due to this strange disease that no one has been able to identify, to two deaths. According to one family member, all hospitalized patients had the same symptoms, namely kidney blockage, which requires dialysis sessions.
However, on the spot, the prevention team, seeing the seriousness of the situation of the other three patients from the same family who were admitted to the emergency room, decided to evacuate them to the El Kettar specialized hospital in Algiers.
Contact yesterday afternoon by telephone, the head of prevention service at the Bouira DSP, Dr. Henni who was on site at the EPH Ain Bessem, will tell us that "medical teams are in the process of to investigate to determine the true causes of these deaths and the origin of this contagion. "
Similarly, he added, "Another team moved to the home of this family in Raouraoua to take samples and try to understand what really happened and how they were infected." Asked about the nature of the disease that killed two people, while three others were in serious condition, Dr Henni said that "he prefers to wait for the results of the investigation and analyzes to formally pronounce on the disease and causes of these deaths ". Meanwhile, a real panic has seized the citizens of Raouraoua and even Ain Bessem, especially since there are rumors of contamination of anyone who has been in contact with members of this family.
Y. Y.
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BOUIRA
A mysterious disease makes two victims
A strange disease, which attacks the renal system, has killed two people in Bouira, according to Dr. Hani, head of prevention department at the Directorate of Health and Population (DSP). It is about two women, a mother and her daughter, who were in contact with a patient admitted on August 8, at A?n Bessem hospital (Bouira), specifies, moreover, the same source. According to Dr. Hani, a forty-year-old was admitted on the 8th of the current month to the EPH of A?n Bessem for vomiting, acute diarrhea and kidney disorders. Four days later, on August 12, a family member, who was visiting him, suddenly presented the same symptoms, and succumbed when he was transferred to Algiers University Hospital. Yesterday, a second victim, aged 84, gave up the ghost, she presented the same symptoms. "For now, we do not know the causes and the origins of this infection," admitted Dr. Hani, while ensuring that the other three members of the patient's family were transferred to El-Kettar hospital in Algiers. to undergo further tests to diagnose this strange infection. In addition, and according to our interlocutor, a commission of the DSP was dispatched in the commune of Raouraoua (extreme south of Bouira), place of residence of this family, to take samples aiming to determine the origin of this infection. The EPH of A?n Bessem is currently quarantined by the health authorities, with the aim of limiting a possible spread of this disease. Contacted, Mohamed Karaoui, nephew of the alpha patient, told us that the services of the EPH Ain Bessem have, in his words, evidence of negligence in the handling of this case. "We have, from August 9, alerted the officials of this hospital about this enigmatic disease, but nobody has deigned to listen to us, and here is the result!", He was indignant.
RAMDANE B.
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A?n Bessem (Bouira): a mysterious disease kills four people
BY ALGERIAFILE15 AUGUST 2018
Four people, including three from the same family, died after having contracted an unidentified illness in A?n Bessem, Bouira wilaya.
According to various sources, all these people died at the hospital Mohamed Bachir of Ain Bessem. The last one is a 40-year-old woman. Two others are in their seventies, while the third is 60 years old.
An investigation was, according to the head of department in charge of prevention at the health department of the wilaya of Bouira, opened to know the precise causes of these deaths.
The symptoms of this mysterious disease are characterized by high fever, diarrhea and liver damage.
The families of the deceased observed a sit-in demanding the sending of a commission of inquiry to elucidate this mystery.
N. Benkharef
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