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Ivory Coast - AIP / An epidemic makes 16 dead including several children in Nandalla (S?gu?la)
September 28th
S?gu?la, Sept 27 (AIP) - An epidemic has been raging for some time in Nandalla, a village 42 kilometers from S?gu?la on the axis leading to Mankono, killing 16 people, the majority of whom are between the ages of zero and five. AIP with local authorities.
The second vice-president of the Regional Council, Kon? Aboubacar Sidiki, had informed people about this disease not yet identified by health officials, Nandalla during the handing on Thursday, school attendance to 289 students.
According to the information collected, the deaths occurred following a state of malaria-like illness accompanied by severe anemia.
A team of epidemiologists arrived from Abidjan to try to contain the situation, since death cases are counted over time for two months.
The sub-prefect of Dualla, Doffou Jean Ferdinand, with the support of the health staff, organized on Friday, an awareness session during which the populations received several directives including the cleaning of the surroundings of the houses, the end defecation in the open, the reference as soon as possible of illness cases to the nearest health center, especially that it was found that the deceased had done self-medication for a while before go late to the hospital.
Last year, six members of the same family had died in Nandalla after consuming maize meal commonly called "kabato" inadvertently contaminated with pesticides, it is recalled.
Ivory Coast - AIP / An epidemic makes 16 dead including several children in Nandalla (S?gu?la)
September 28th
S?gu?la, Sept 27 (AIP) - An epidemic has been raging for some time in Nandalla, a village 42 kilometers from S?gu?la on the axis leading to Mankono, killing 16 people, the majority of whom are between the ages of zero and five. AIP with local authorities.
The second vice-president of the Regional Council, Kon? Aboubacar Sidiki, had informed people about this disease not yet identified by health officials, Nandalla during the handing on Thursday, school attendance to 289 students.
According to the information collected, the deaths occurred following a state of malaria-like illness accompanied by severe anemia.
A team of epidemiologists arrived from Abidjan to try to contain the situation, since death cases are counted over time for two months.
The sub-prefect of Dualla, Doffou Jean Ferdinand, with the support of the health staff, organized on Friday, an awareness session during which the populations received several directives including the cleaning of the surroundings of the houses, the end defecation in the open, the reference as soon as possible of illness cases to the nearest health center, especially that it was found that the deceased had done self-medication for a while before go late to the hospital.
Last year, six members of the same family had died in Nandalla after consuming maize meal commonly called "kabato" inadvertently contaminated with pesticides, it is recalled.
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