Nearly 3,000 children aged 3 to 59 months will benefit from drugs against malaria (minister)
Ouagadougou, September 13, 2023 (AIB) - The Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Robert Lucien Jean Claude Kargougou indicated Thursday that nearly 3 thousand children from 3 to 59 months will benefit from medicines, as part of the seasonal malaria prevention chemo campaign which takes place from September 14 to 17, 2023 in Burkina.
“Today, we have just officially launched the fourth round of the national chemo-prevention campaign for seasonal malaria associated with the anti-larval fight that we called CPS+,” declared the Minister of Health and Hygiene. public, Robert Lucien Jean Claude Kargougou.
According to him, this campaign against malaria will affect nearly 3,000 children aged 3 to 59 months across the entire national territory.
Mr. Kargougou spoke Thursday in Ouagadougou, at the Health and Social Promotion Center (CSPS) of Cissin, in the health district of Boulmiougou (district 6), on the occasion of the official launch of the national chemo prevention campaign. seasonal malaria.
To this end, the head of the department in charge of Health called on the entire population to massively support the operation, in order to protect children against malaria.
“For the Central region, this is the third passage because this region began the first passage, from the month of July, but overall, it is the fourth passage,” he said. .
The Minister of Health explained that this will involve administering anti-malaria drugs to children aged 3 to 59 months for three days.
According to him, community distributors (DC) supported by health workers, national volunteers (VN) and community-based health workers (ASBC) will go to the concessions, with a view to supervising themselves, the first time children take medication.
Robert Lucien Jean Claude Kargougou said that on the second and third day, at the same time, the children's mothers and caregivers will be responsible for giving the children the medicine themselves.
“If we take medications correctly, this will help reduce the transmission of malaria in children aged 3 to 59 months,” he added.
Mr. Kargougou also stressed that in addition to this, health workers will ensure whether children have good nutritional status during the said malaria prevention campaign.
For him, health workers will destroy the larval breeding grounds in the various courtyards, because according to him, malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes which develop in stagnant water and in concessions, etc.
Listening to him, this destruction of larval breeding grounds will also make it possible to fight against the transmission of the dengue epidemic.
For the occasion, the Ministry of Health carried out a field trip with journalists to the health districts of Boulmiougou, notably the Nagrin Medical Center (district 7) and the CSPS of Cissin in district 6 of the city of Ouagadougou.
The press accompanied by agents visited the families of Zoungrana and Sanfo (Nagrin) and those of Nikièma and Kaboré (Cissin) and were able to observe the different taking of anti-malaria drugs by the children, the destruction of the larval breeding sites and the sessions raising awareness of the fight against malaria.
Source: Burkina Information Agency