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DRC: in less than two months, nearly 90 children aged 0 to 5 died of an unknown disease in Gungu (Kwilu)
Saturday
October 9, 2021 - 11:42 AM
Nearly 90 children aged 0 to 5 have died since the end of August as a result of a hitherto undetermined illness, authorities alert. According to the head of the provincial health division in Kwilu, Jean-Pierre Basake, the affected children show signs of fever causing anemia. He indicates that the health authorities were not seized of the matter in time.
“In places, like in Lonzo Munene village, two to three children die. It already dates from the end of August. And when we add up, we are around 90 children. The team was not warned in time because the families were going to the private community more, the state structures were not informed. It is malaria with fevers that reduce blood hemoglobin, so that by lack of transfusion and good management to minimize fevers, there is anemia, ”said Jean. -Pierre Basake.
He adds: “Also because of their habits and customs, we don't like transfusing. Now is the time for us to see how we can combine actions to have a possibility of installing the blood bank in large cities ”.
In society, these numerous cases of child deaths call for an investigation to determine the nature of the disease.
“Children die every day, especially in the rural commune of Mukedi and the surrounding villages. There is fever, loss of blood, there is also diarrhea which manifests itself especially in children from 0 to 5 years old who are targeted by this epidemic which still lacks a name. We ask that there be descent of a team of health experts who can come to the aid, to see if it is exactly what ”, pleaded journalist René Kinenga, director of programs at Radio Fraternité. by Mukedi.
According to information collected from some residents, this is the third time that these repeated deaths have been observed for three years, still at the start of the rainy season.
Jonathan Mesa in Bandundu
https://actualite.cd/2021/10/09/rdc-...s-dune-maladie
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DRC-Kwilu: a hitherto unidentified disease kills children aged 0 to 5 in Gungu, already 165 dead since August
Thursday
October 21, 2021 - 9:02 AM
Health
At least 165 deaths have already been recorded among children aged 0 to 5 since the end of last August following a fever causing anemia in the territory of Gungu (Kwilu).
ACTUALITE.CD had already alerted a few days ago to the presence of an unknown disease that kills children of this age group.
The head of the provincial health division told ACTUALITE.CD on Tuesday, October 19 that the victims also show signs of malaria.
"They present with malaria, when you do the RDT it is positive, but apart from malaria, someone can also suffer from another disease that we do not know but it causes anemia," said Dr Jean. -Pierre Basake.
First, Dr Jean-Pierre Basake invites parents to make good use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and to attend health facilities for free treatment.
The head of the provincial division of health announces soon an investigation of the ministry of health to determine the disease and to reinforce the assumption of responsibility.
And according to the bourgmestre of rural commune of Mukedi, Alain Nzamba,
an average of 4 deaths is recorded per day in his jurisdiction, in the villages of Lozo Munene and Kinzamba.
Jonathan Mesa, in Bandundu
https://actualite.cd/2021/10/21/rdc-...-0-5-ans-gungu
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Kwilu: 165 children aged zero to five died of anemia in Gungu territory
23.10.2021,
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Gungu territory, more than 70 kilometers from Kikwit, records deaths of children aged zero to five as a result of anemia. Already 165 children have died.
Dr Jean-Pierre Basake, provincial medical inspector of Kwilu who delivers the information, says that this is happening in the Mukedi health zone and that
a team of specialists will descend in a week to monitor the situation.
"It started last September. We need large-scale actions. For example the effective use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets," he said.
Dr Basake asks people to agree to donate blood when there is anemia.
“People have malaria. When we do the rest of the RDT [rapid diagnostic test] positive cases are registered. There may be other conditions that we don't know about. We don't have the means to diagnose. other pathologies, "he says.
The provincial medical inspector of Kwilu is appealing to partners to support this health zone of Mukedi.
He complains that many people don't like sleeping under the long-acting insecticide-treated bed net.
Badylon Kawanda Bakiman
congo-press.com (MCP) / mediacongo.net
https://www.mediacongo.net/article-...rts_d_anemie_dans_le_territoire_de_gungu.html
