DRC - Unknown disease killed 14 people in Kasongo-Lunda, province of Kwango

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DRC: the caucus of national deputies of Kwango alerts Mboso N'Kodia on the appearance of "an unknown disease that killed 14 people in Kasongolunda"

February 27, 2021Politics ,DR Congo0 Comments582 Views

By Sim?on Isako

The President of the National Assembly Christophe Mboso N'Kodia received the caucus of national deputies of the province of Kwango this Saturday, February 27, 2021.

These elected officials were carrying a warning message to the Speaker of the lower house of parliament on an unknown disease which has already killed 14 people in the territory of Kasongolunda.

“ The Kwango National Deputies Caucus has come to visit the President of the National Assembly for what is happening in one of the territories of Kwango province, specifically in Kasongolunda territory. There is an unknown disease which is killing our compatriots, 14 people have already been killed by this disease. Until now, we do not know the origin of this disease, ”said Jean Pierre Pasizapamba, president of the Kwango caucus.

The national deputies of Kwango took the opportunity to wish the new president of the National Assembly every success.

“ Since the Honorable Christophe Mboso N'Kodia is at the head of the National Assembly, we have not yet exchanged, which is why we have decided to come and encourage him and wish him every success in his mandate so that 'he leads the national assembly with great wisdom ,' he concluded.

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Kwango: an unknown disease appears in Kasongo-Lunda

Kinshasa01-03-2021Society - Fourteen people have died in the territory of Kasongo-Lunda in the province of Kwango following an illness of unknown origin, the national elected representatives of the said province alerted to the President of the National Assembly on Saturday February 27, 2021. , Christophe Mboso Nkodia.

It was during a hearing that the latter had granted them. The caucus of national deputies of the province of Kwango came to inform the president of the lower house of what is happening in the territory of Kasongo-Lunda where an unknown disease is killing the population. 14 people have already succumbed to this disease, the origin of which is so far unknown, said the chairman of this caucus, Jean-Pierre Pasi Zapamba.

The elected representatives of this part of the Republic took the opportunity to wish the new president of the National Assembly every success, encouraging him in his new mandate so that he leads the National Assembly with great wisdom.

Gisele Mbuyi

https://www.digitalcongo.net/article/603ce7ed94892f00174eb4c6/

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DRC: 15 people killed by unknown disease

MYSTERY Samples were taken and will be analyzed to identify this disease

20 Minutes with agencies
Posted on 03/02/21 4:40 PM - Updated 03/02/21 at 4:40 p.m.

Fifteen people, ranging in age from 60 to 80, died in February after contracting an unidentified disease in a western province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . “This unidentified disease has been raging in the Kasongo-Lunda health zone for a month. Currently, we have recorded 15 deaths, all of them elderly, ”said Jean-Marie Peti-Peti, governor of Kwango province.

"The patient begins by having headaches, then pain everywhere, fever, then respiratory complications", before dying, he explained. “The provincial Minister of Health, the chief doctor of the Kasongo-Lunda health zone as well as epidemiologists from Kinshasa are hard at work. They have already taken samples to send to the INRB (National Institute for Biomedical Research) ”in order to identify this disease, added the governor.

Access to healthcare complicated for the population

Two epidemics, Covid-19 and Chikungunya, have been reported in this Angolan border city, located 250 km south-east of Kinshasa and lacking viable health infrastructure. Health workers in this city complain that they do not receive regular salaries.

Access to medical care is made difficult because of its high cost in relation to the standard of living of the population. It is estimated at more than 1.5 million inhabitants, mainly farmers with very low incomes.

https://www.20minutes.fr/monde/2989191-20210302-rdc-15-personnes-tuees-maladie-inconnue

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Kwango: flu-like illness kills 11 in Kasongolunda

Published on Tue, 02/03/2021 - 11:16 | Modified on Tue, 02/03/2021 - 11:16

An unknown flu-like illness has already killed 11 people, mostly seniors out of 180 cases already identified in Kasongolunda territory, in Kwango province, since the second week of January 2021. The provincial minister Kwango Health Officer Didier Tshikisa told Radio Okapi on Monday March 1 that a multidisciplinary team was dispatched to the area for investigations.

This team will take the samples to be sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) in Kinshasa.

This team, he announced, is made up of nursing staff, laboratory assistants and communicologists.

“The flu as you know and covid-19 have almost the same signs. It was the elderly who would die from it according to the records we have and that the last case of death dates back to February 14, ” said the provincial Minister of Health of Kwango.

He further stated that the Covid-19 test carried out by this multidisciplinary team to patients turned out to be negative:

"On the spot, what we can say, the rapid covid-19 tests were found to be negative, but for the rest, we are waiting for the samples that we have just taken that we send to the INRB for see if it is what (which disease) ”.

https://www.radiookapi.net/2021/03/02/actualite/sante/kwango-une-maladie-semblable-la-grippe-fait-11-deces-kasongolunda