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Guéra: a disease of unknown origin ravages Melfi
Tchadinfos
24 October 2021
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An illness of unknown origin appeared in Melfi in the department of Barh Garada, province of Guéra.
Symptoms include cough, headache, fever, vomiting, etc. Indeed, since the appearance of this unknown disease, there have been seven deaths until today, according to the major of the hospital of Melfi Idriss Mahamat Khamis. “The victims were identified in the ferricks close to Melfi,” he said.
According to the opinion of the major, reached by telephone, this disease should be contagious given its rapid spread.
Thus, an entire family died from the disease, according to the hospital major. Making a diagnosis (test) on patients with this unknown disease, the result reveals positive symptoms of malaria made with RDTs.
As we do not control the source of this disease, samples of Covid-19 were taken from patients who are being analyzed in Mongo, the hospital major said.
Descending into the ferricks, antimalarial treatment, antibiotics as well as mosquito nets were given.
For the time being, the situation seems to be under control because the notification of cases is on the decline.
Bechir Badjoury Abbanou, correspondent for Guéra
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Chad: Minister of Health reassures about unknown disease in Guéra
Madjissembaye Ngarndinon
24 October 2021
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In recent days, an unknown disease is frightening in the province of Guéra. The Minister in charge of Public Health, Abdoulaye Saber Fadoul comes, through his social networks to make an update.
“For two days, rumors have been circulating about an alleged unknown epidemic that caused the death of about fifty people in the Melfi area in the village, says Tamki. We want to reassure our compatriots that between October 19 and 23, three field missions have already been carried out by our teams from the provincial delegation of Guera in close collaboration with the administrative authorities ”, writes Abdoulaye Saber Fadoul.
For the Minister of Health, despite limited resources, the ministry's teams had to diagnose 52 patients, treat 12 on site or refer them 4 to the nearest health facilities, but also to distribute insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets. , raise awareness, etc.
For the minister, everything indicates that it is about cases of malaria, with 8 deaths counted by his teams in these ferriks of the nomads, “which need to be sensitized to frequent the health structures instead of trusting the charlatans itinerants ”.
Abdoulaye Saber Fadoul reassures that for the moment, the situation is under control. “Samples are sent to our laboratories to confirm the first diagnoses. A multidisciplinary team from the Ministry will be dispatched tomorrow to the districts concerned for further investigations ”, indicates the Minister of Health, who urges people to“ refrain from causing psychosis that is not justified ”.
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