Via 7sur7.cd: DRC Ebola: France funds a project called "Ebola Winners", dedicated to the care of survivors of this virus. Excerpt from the Google translation:
France is financing a project called "Winners of Ebola" which aims to take care of the survivors of this deadly epidemic that scours the eastern regions of the DRC, particularly North Kivu, epicenter of the disease and the province of Ituri.
According to a statement from the French Embassy reached 7SUR7.CD Wednesday, this program was launched Monday, September 23 at the Hotel du Fleuve Kinshasa, under the chairmanship of the technical secretariat of the Multisectoral Committee of the response to the Ebola virus disease, delegates from the Ministry of Health, the National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) and the Ebola Special Envoy for France, Professor Yves Lévy.
Its establishment was made possible thanks to "the fruitful collaboration of Professor Lévy with Professor Muyembe, Director General of INRB and national coordinator of the Ebola response". Its fundamental ideal is to completely stem the virus from the body after healing.
"This management program is therefore fundamental to treat survivors, to understand and define strategies for treating these sequelae and to propose solutions to eradicate the virus from the body after healing, in order to avoid cases of contamination. secondary ", reads in this release.
France justifies the quintessence of this project by the fact that among the approximately 3000 confirmed cases of cured Ebola, nearly 950 must be supported. The vast majority of them present sequelae that are both psychological (anxiety, depression) and medical (musculoskeletal pain, loss of hearing, decreased vision or blindness, etc.).
In addition to these sequelae, says the same source, it was found that the virus can persist in the body once cured as in sperm, breast milk and this up to 500 days after healing.
