Ivory Coast - An unidentified disease is affecting the residents of Tortiya, Hambol Region - Dengue reported

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Ivory Coast-AIP/An unidentified disease is rife in Tortiya

PIECHION BENJAMIN SOROPUBLISHED ON MAY 31, 2024UPDATE :JUNE 1, 2024

Tortiya, May 31, 2024 (AIP) - Residents of the town of Tortiya, a locality 47 kilometers of track west of the town of Niakara (North-Central, Hambol region), are facing an as yet unidentified disease. officially.

In recent days, the Tortiya Urban Health Center (CSU) has experienced an unusual spike in consultations from patients complaining of “aches, headaches, general fatigue and sometimes stomach aches”.

Niakara health officials stressed, for their part, that “very thorough investigations are underway with a medical team who urgently stayed in Tortiya for this purpose, between May 27 and 30, 2024.”

The mayor of the town, Blaise Coulibaly Kinampinan, in an interview with the AIP on Thursday May 30, 2024,mentions “deaths, mainly of young people”.

“The town of Tortiya lives in psychosis; there are many sick people and also cases of death, mainly young people,” he revealed.

According to the local elected official, this unidentified illness affected the holding of the ordinary session of the said municipal council which recorded the effective presence of only 20 municipal councilors out of a total of 31 members of this decision-making, planning and management body. management.

Eleven cases of bedridden patients, whether advisors, their spouses or their children, justified the absence of the members concerned.

“Initially, we thought of the water coming from the taps of the Distribution Company, because it was a little cloudy,” said the 4th deputy mayor of Tortiya, Cissé Ibrahim.

However, he confirmed analyzes carried out by “a SODECI mission composed of chemists from Bouaké who definitively ruled out the trace of polluted water, locally spread by rumor”.

The first magistrate of the commune, Blaise Coulibaly Kinampinan, welcomed the prompt and effective involvement of the Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage (MSHP-CMU) through its departmental representation of Niakara, led by Dr Baba Touré Badian, for a solution supposed to curb the scourge.

According to several corroborating testimonies, including that of the president of the municipal youth of Tortiya, Marius Koné, the city has been facing, for a month, a colony of “unusual” mosquitoes which are visible night and day.

(AIP)

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https://www.aip.ci/68203/cote-divoire-aip-une-maladie-inconnue-sevit-a-tortiya/

 

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June 1 at 5:08 PM

Press release from the president of the municipal youth of tortiya Marius Koné

This day (May 1) a meeting was held at the CSU meeting room in Tortiya with the regional director of health, the departmental director of health, the epidemiologist doctor from INHP ​​and administrative officials. and policies.

It emerged from the discussions that after the blood samples and tests carried out, we have suspected cases of dengue in Tortiya.

While waiting for confirmation from the Pasteur Institute, we must adopt barrier measures by destroying places where mosquitoes proliferate.
_make our environment healthy.
_sleep under long-acting impregnated mosquito nets. (In the coming days they will distribute the mosquito nets).
_go to the hospital immediately when we have a fever for treatment.
A fight team has been set up to raise awareness.

NB: we only have suspected cases at the moment.
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Ivory Coast-AIP/The Ministry of Health initiates a mosquito control operation in the town of Tortiya

PIECHION BENJAMIN SORO PUBLISHED ON JUNE 7, 2024
UPDATE :JUNE 8, 2024

Tortiya (Niakara), June 6, 2024 (AIP)-The Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage (MSHP-CMU) and officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) began a mosquito control operation in the town of Tortiya (North-Central, Hambol region).

The installation of traps for the capture of mosquitoes and the collection of larvae and pupae of these harmful insects constitute the first activities started on Thursday June 6, 2024, pending the disinsection of the entire city, as part of the government strategy aimed at eradication of tiger mosquitoes, vectors of dengue fever.

According to consistent testimonies, patients presenting symptoms of malaria in consultation in the urban health center (CSU) of Tortiya are systematically subjected to the rapid diagnostic test (RDT) for dengue.

“Dengue RDT appeared almost two weeks ago,” according to a health worker interviewed by the AIP on Thursday June 6.

Thanks to the efforts of agents in charge of the medical care of patients and local authorities, through the local population information and awareness committee, the number of consultations linked to malaria is decreasing at the CSU, rejoiced the 4th deputy mayor, Ibrahima Cissé.

(AIP)

https://www.aip.ci/70364/cote-divoi...ion-de-demoustication-de-la-ville-de-tortiya/

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