Africa
DRC: Ministry of Health urged to declare « Chikungunya » an epidemic
The Ministry of Public Health should declare the « Chikungunya » virus disease an epidemic in the DRC. More and more kinsmen and even the population of Kongo Central suffer and others die of ignorance. No good management of this disease is organized nor the exact figures of the cases detected and examined in scientific laboratories.
In the meantime, the urgency is to raise awareness among the population to draw attention to this disease that silently kills.
It is within this framework that the Interdisciplinary Center for Health Risk Management organized a morning of scientific information on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, for media professionals meeting within the association of health communicators. in Africa (ACSA / DRC).
According to Professor Justin Masumu, a researcher at this Center, Chikungunya is not his first appearance. Already from 1999 to 2000, more than 50 000 cases were recorded; in 2012: four health zones were affected; and in December 2018, the alert left the municipality of Mont Ngalula.
Symptoms similar to malaria
According to testimony gathered during this scientific morning, all the patients who suffered from this disease, had clinical signs similar to those of malaria.
These include high temperatures and headaches. But the difference is in pain and paralysis of upper and lower limbs, accompanied by vomiting and lack of appetite.
And each case had distinct signs of the other. This makes complex medical management complex.
Declaration of epidemic
By declaring Chikungunya as an epidemic, experts explained, this would allow the appropriate centers and laboratories as well as the Ministry of Health, through its indicated services, to have more elements on which to communicate and also to prepare response.
To date, only good environmental sanitation can prevent this disease that is transmitted by a virus called « Aedes. »
Nadine FULA
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Prime Minister Ilunkamba has just authorized, on Monday, October 14, 2019, the Minister of Urban Planning and Housing Then Mwabilu and the Minister of State for International Cooperation Guillaume Manjolo to sign two orders.
This, after his visit to the site where the great Cultural and Artistic Centre of Central Africa will be built as well as the INA Buildings, the National Institute of Arts, where he ordered the resumption of work.
The first decree concerns the postponement of the decree of 14 October 2016 and the second concerns the decommissioning of a portion of land in favour of Sino-Congolese cooperation.
The Chinese company BEIJING URBAN CONSTRUCTION GROUP is in charge of building this large Centre for 30 months. The cost of the work is estimated at US$100 million.
After this visit to the field, the head of the Ilunga Ilunkamba Government himself presided over the signing ceremony of these two ministerial decrees for the implementation of the Chinese government’s donation to the DRC.
There was talk of ending the superposition of orders first by repealing the one that granted the same concession to Richesse Taylor.
It should be noted that the cultural and artistic centre, one of the largest in Central Africa, will constitute, according to the Minister of State for Cooperation Guillaume Mandjolo, an innovative source for the public treasury and restore the DRC’s position as a leader in the world of African culture.
This large Centre will be located between the triumphal boulevard and Assossa avenues, a few metres from the People’s Palace.
The construction of this important cultural building includes the large 2,000-seat theatre, the small 800-seat theatre, meeting rooms, the gymnasium and a car park.
Nadine FULA
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