Via Radio Moto Butembo-Beni: Ebola allowed us to discover things that are not going well in our hospitals ... (Dr. MUNDAMA). The Google translation:
Heads of educational institutions must already consider affiliating their schools with health facilities for monitoring the health of learners. This is an interpellation of Dr. MUNDAMA WITENDE Jean Paul expressed last Friday during the sensitization session of education executives on the Ebola virus disease.
This provincial health officer in Butembo regrets that school officials do not seem to care about the health of their learners. For him, health professionals will have to regularly examine learners.
"When a school has less than 600 students, it is necessary to have a contract with a hospital that must visit each child at least once a year. But I know that children will come out without having visited. However, during schooling, one must know the growth of the child, see if the child listens well, examine if the child sees well because a child can fail because he does not see, but neither the child's teacher, nor the parent know it. A medical visit must do it. But, we do not do it. And when a school has 600 students, it has permission to operate an infirmary," said Dr. Mundama.
In addition, this health specialist lamented the absence of isolation rooms in most health facilities in the square. For Dr. MUNDAMA WITENDE Jean-Paul, the promoters of these structures must already think about the construction of such a framework.
"Something wrong is good. On the occasion of this disease, I discovered that our hospitals lack hygiene, cases are piled up like sardines on top of each other, first unfortunate finding. The second observation is that several pestilential diseases such as measles and pertussis have disappeared. So there is no isolation structure in our hospitals. So from this illness, we have to recreate isolation services because we can have a case, but we do not know how to isolate it," said this health worker.
Dr. MUNDAMA WITENDE Jean-Paul also called on people to take health as their first concern.
