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Nouakchott: Why the silence on this dreaded disease that wreaks havoc?
September 24, 2015 - 1:52
For over a month, fever, some call dengue, wreaked havoc particularly in Nouakchott. At first, it was awarded neighborhood names where it manifested itself first (Dar Naim, Arafat ...). And for a long time the government has refused to recognize the true nature of this disease that is ravaging families. Just go to the emergency services of our hospitals to see the damage. Patients are lying on the floor with infusions. Firms and other pharmacies scattered throughout the neighborhoods of the suburbs took advantage of the misfortunes of the poor to raise the offerings. A perfusion reaches up to 7000 Um. The fever is contagious, it can strike all the family.
The infusion is recommended by the attending after drinking paracetamol, doliprane, Efferalgan, Dafalgan, Asp?gic, combined, usually with antimalarial ... The patients even resorted to the leaves of nivaquines which they heat, drink and/or wash themselves with...This fever is very stubborn, it can last more than 2 weeks.
Curiously, and despite the havoc it commits, the health ministry has not officially pronounced. Only a Mauritanian doctor broke the silence, saying it is indeed a fever dengue advising patients to avoid taking the Asp?gic while others combine this drug with antimalarial for fight against this disease, which, in addition to headaches, fever takes away all your appetite.
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http://lecalame.info/?q=node/2795
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25-09-2015 8:29 - A strange disease in Nouakchott: Is it a curse?
The Authentic - A special and unique form of malaria fever is known for a few weeks in the city of Nouakchott. The epidemic is so severe that health staff, overwhelmed, eventually launch an SOS government leadership for a strong and urgent action to benefit people whom speak of curse!
The fever called "Teyarett fever" now prevails alarmingly and epidemiologically in the city of Nouakchott, affecting more than half of its inhabitants. Everywhere, health centers refuse people; some patients are forced to remain in the corridors or in the yard of the centers while waiting to receive necessary care.
Many of them are struggling for days against death. Desperately, from medical sources, there would be more patients who have decided to stay at home than those who were finally driven, as a last resort, in the private and public health centers. Here and there, the situation is catastrophic, says in essence that the medical establishment says is overwhelmed by the extent of the health disaster and facing the depletion of stocks infusion, would be obligated to oblige patients to source medicines in private pharmacies.
The worst is that from last news, the latter would be out of stock! Accordingly, the health situation is very serious in the city of Nouakchott with a fever whose origins seem unknown.
Opinions are sharply divided as for the medical staff who sometimes call it an epidemic or epidemiological fever, sometimes of a particular form of malaria, sometimes dengue. In any event, it seems that there is no specific treatment for this severe disease, according to the medical substance that holds that it is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes which spread dramatically in recent months fawn in the city of Nouakchott and even in parts of the country. Also according to the doctors, the disease progresses exponentially in the outskirts of the capital, with local risk variations especially depending on rainfall, temperature and rapid urbanization and uncontrolled.
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http://cridem.org/C_Info.php?article=675683
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The people of Nouakchott under the yoke of a terrible disease
Posted by KleibA Featured, News, MAURITANIA, health
27 September 2015
The feast of the Aid El K?bir will not have made that happy in Nouakchott, a stricken city where hundreds even thousands of inhabitants grapple since a few weeks with a fever of an unknown nature which goes on the rampage in the various corners of this city.
Indeed, in most of the families sick show daily and hospitals and other health centers refuse people. Medical personnel overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster no longer knows where to turn.
The hospital wards are full to bursting everywhere and carers are in some cases forced to close the doors in the face of desperate patients and abandoned to their fate.
The health situation is quite pitiful contrast to the view taken by the authorities apparently completely overtaken by events. So that during a recent visit to some health centers, the head of government categorically denied the existence of any epidemic.
...
http://www.pointschauds.info/fr/201...ouakchott-sous-le-joug-dune-terrible-maladie/
Nouakchott: Why the silence on this dreaded disease that wreaks havoc?
September 24, 2015 - 1:52
For over a month, fever, some call dengue, wreaked havoc particularly in Nouakchott. At first, it was awarded neighborhood names where it manifested itself first (Dar Naim, Arafat ...). And for a long time the government has refused to recognize the true nature of this disease that is ravaging families. Just go to the emergency services of our hospitals to see the damage. Patients are lying on the floor with infusions. Firms and other pharmacies scattered throughout the neighborhoods of the suburbs took advantage of the misfortunes of the poor to raise the offerings. A perfusion reaches up to 7000 Um. The fever is contagious, it can strike all the family.
The infusion is recommended by the attending after drinking paracetamol, doliprane, Efferalgan, Dafalgan, Asp?gic, combined, usually with antimalarial ... The patients even resorted to the leaves of nivaquines which they heat, drink and/or wash themselves with...This fever is very stubborn, it can last more than 2 weeks.
Curiously, and despite the havoc it commits, the health ministry has not officially pronounced. Only a Mauritanian doctor broke the silence, saying it is indeed a fever dengue advising patients to avoid taking the Asp?gic while others combine this drug with antimalarial for fight against this disease, which, in addition to headaches, fever takes away all your appetite.
...
http://lecalame.info/?q=node/2795
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25-09-2015 8:29 - A strange disease in Nouakchott: Is it a curse?
The Authentic - A special and unique form of malaria fever is known for a few weeks in the city of Nouakchott. The epidemic is so severe that health staff, overwhelmed, eventually launch an SOS government leadership for a strong and urgent action to benefit people whom speak of curse!
The fever called "Teyarett fever" now prevails alarmingly and epidemiologically in the city of Nouakchott, affecting more than half of its inhabitants. Everywhere, health centers refuse people; some patients are forced to remain in the corridors or in the yard of the centers while waiting to receive necessary care.
Many of them are struggling for days against death. Desperately, from medical sources, there would be more patients who have decided to stay at home than those who were finally driven, as a last resort, in the private and public health centers. Here and there, the situation is catastrophic, says in essence that the medical establishment says is overwhelmed by the extent of the health disaster and facing the depletion of stocks infusion, would be obligated to oblige patients to source medicines in private pharmacies.
The worst is that from last news, the latter would be out of stock! Accordingly, the health situation is very serious in the city of Nouakchott with a fever whose origins seem unknown.
Opinions are sharply divided as for the medical staff who sometimes call it an epidemic or epidemiological fever, sometimes of a particular form of malaria, sometimes dengue. In any event, it seems that there is no specific treatment for this severe disease, according to the medical substance that holds that it is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes which spread dramatically in recent months fawn in the city of Nouakchott and even in parts of the country. Also according to the doctors, the disease progresses exponentially in the outskirts of the capital, with local risk variations especially depending on rainfall, temperature and rapid urbanization and uncontrolled.
...
http://cridem.org/C_Info.php?article=675683
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The people of Nouakchott under the yoke of a terrible disease
Posted by KleibA Featured, News, MAURITANIA, health
27 September 2015
The feast of the Aid El K?bir will not have made that happy in Nouakchott, a stricken city where hundreds even thousands of inhabitants grapple since a few weeks with a fever of an unknown nature which goes on the rampage in the various corners of this city.
Indeed, in most of the families sick show daily and hospitals and other health centers refuse people. Medical personnel overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster no longer knows where to turn.
The hospital wards are full to bursting everywhere and carers are in some cases forced to close the doors in the face of desperate patients and abandoned to their fate.
The health situation is quite pitiful contrast to the view taken by the authorities apparently completely overtaken by events. So that during a recent visit to some health centers, the head of government categorically denied the existence of any epidemic.
...
http://www.pointschauds.info/fr/201...ouakchott-sous-le-joug-dune-terrible-maladie/