Via Actualite.cd: DRC: in less than two months, nearly 90 children aged 0 to 5 died from an unknown disease in Gungu (Kwilu). The Google translation:
Nearly 90 children aged 0 to 5 have died since the end of August as a result of a hitherto undetermined illness, authorities alert. According to the head of the provincial health division in Kwilu, Jean-Pierre Basake, the affected children show signs of fever causing anemia. He indicates that the health authorities were not seized of the matter in time.
“In places, like in Lonzo Munene village, two to three children die. It already dates from the end of August. And when we add up, we are around 90 children. The team was not warned in time because the families were going to the private community more, the state structures were not informed. It is malaria with fevers that reduce blood hemoglobin, so that by lack of transfusion and good management to minimize fevers, there is anemia,” said Jean-Pierre Basake.
He adds: “Also because of their habits and customs, we don't like transfusing. Now is the time for us to see how we can combine actions to have a possibility of installing the blood bank in large cities.”
In society, these numerous cases of child deaths call for an investigation to determine the nature of the disease.
“Children die every day, especially in the rural commune of Mukedi and the surrounding villages. There is fever, loss of blood, there is also diarrhea which manifests itself especially in children from 0 to 5 years old who are targeted by this epidemic which still lacks a name. We ask that there be a descent of a team of health experts who can come to the aid, to see if it is exactly what,” pleaded journalist René Kinenga, director of programs at Radio Fraternité by Mukedi.
According to information collected from some residents, this is the third time that these repeated deaths have been observed for three years, still at the start of the rainy season.
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