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COVID-19 in Guinea: Why is the Government delaying to materialize the response plan?
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May 20, 2020
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Since April 2, 2020, the Guinean government, through the Prime Minister, has sent a descriptive note to the President of the Republic concerning its response plan to COVID-19. A plan that revolves around three main axes including health, social, economic and financial, at a total cost of 3500 billion Guinean francs (360 million dollars). But what about the implementation of this response plan at a time when the Guinean populations are fully suffering the social and economic shock of this pandemic?
Regarding the first component of the plan, in particular the consolidation of the monitoring and management system, the only progress to note remains the expansion of reception capacities with the provision of 7 sites. With regard to strengthening the surveillance system both in Conakry and in the interior of the country, we are obliged to note that it still remains weak. As for care, it continues to be a problem. At least, if we stick to the recurring complaints that we have patients about, in particular the management of tests. Finally, the coordination which fell under this component is not satisfactory either. Otherwise, we would not yet be witnessing the dispersion of patient data between the various monitoring teams.
Under the social component of the response plan, it was planned that the National Agency for Economic and Social Inclusion (ANIES) integrate into its 2020 activity plan, emergency actions required to mitigate the consequences of the crisis with populations in precarious situations, in particular by deploying an appropriate inclusion system for the poorest households. Except that we have no visibility on awareness-raising activities and the distribution of protection kits to 130,900 households for a total of 850,000 people. This activity was planned to start in April and there we tend towards the end of May, we have nothing in sight. As for the actions that were planned for the month of May, notably the deployment of labor-intensive activities (HIMO) in Conakry, the construction of boreholes to promote access to drinking water in rural areas, none neither announced on this day of May 20, 2020. What can we say about the so-called program of monetary transfers for 240,000 households or about 1.6 million people supposed to take place in June 2020? ANIES was also expected to provide food to households in the most affected geographic areas. But there it is rather the NGOs and the private entities which are active on this ground for the benefit of the poor citizens.
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No need to approach the Economic and financial component.
It is therefore necessary that the Government, through the Prime Minister, speak again to explain to the public what is stuck about the implementation of the response plan to COVID-19. Because it should be noted, when the President of the Republic received the said plan from the hands of the Prime Minister, the country displayed 51 confirmed cases, one person healed, and 1000 cases contacts. While on May 19, 2020, a month and 18 days later, the table shows 2863 confirmed cases, 1525 cured, and unfortunately 18 official deaths in health facilities and at least 9 other loss of life within the community. Read more on Guineeactusociale.com
