The recently deceased president of Burundi was a COVID-19 denialist, but with his departure the country may be facing reality. Via Burundi Eco: Rumonge: confinement of nursing staff. The Google translation:
The staff members of the Rumonge hospital placed in confinement work in the internal medicine service of this hospital and have contacted a patient who was hospitalized in this hospital and who was later transferred to one of the hospitals in Bujumbura after that he tested positive for Covid 19, sources close to the hospital said.
These two doctors and six nurses are confined to their homes and are waiting to be tested with Covid-19 after coming into contact with a patient who tested positive for Covid-19 when he was hospitalized in the internal medicine service of this hospital.
The nursing staff and the sick and sick guards try to multiply the prevention measures by respecting the distance of at least one and a half meters between a patient and the doctor or the attending nurse.
The activities continue normally in this hospital but the nursing staff and the sick and sick guards try to multiply the preventive measures by respecting the distance of at least one and a half meters between a patient and the attending doctor or nurse.
Relaxation of preventive measures
Prevention measures are no longer scrupulously observed, especially in rural areas, buckets of water are no longer visible where many people end up. Some people have resumed the practice of waving hands or kissing as if nothing had happened.
The wearing of the mask is no longer observed except in hospitals. Many people indicate that they do not know the mode of contamination of the Coronavirus and even less the symptoms of this pandemic.
There is a lack of communication and awareness about this pandemic, regrets a manager of an organization that works in the health promotion sector. They call on the health and administrative authorities to raise awareness on the measures to prevent this pandemic.
The porosity of the borders between Burundi and the DRC on the one hand and between Burundi and Tanzania on the other hand is of great concern, because people can enter or leave without passing through the official border posts and the risk of contamination is real.
The fishermen who make back and forth movements between Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo worry people who say that this constitutes a risk of contamination par excellence.
Health and administrative authorities and religious denominations should regularly communicate on this pandemic and increase awareness-raising sessions for the population, say the heads of human rights organizations.
Some people, especially in rural areas, have little information about this pandemic, especially on the means of prevention and the symptoms of this disease, report the same sources.
Many people questioned asked the Ministry of Public Health to set up a Covid-19 screening center at one of the hospitals in the South region to better combat this pandemic.
Sources close to the office of the governor of the province of Rumonge indicate that instructions have been given to the administrative authorities to make the population aware of the danger of this pandemic by insisting on the prevention measures and the denunciation of any person who would smuggle in from neighboring countries to be quarantined.
Let us recall that the cholera epidemic first appeared in Burundi in the Rumonge province in 1978.
