In addition to being one of the first reasons for consulting in health centers, hospitals and clinics, malaria is also one of the main causes of death of children under the age of 5 and ravages in the ranks of pregnant women. To cope with it, it is important to prevent the disease.
The general practitioner of the Magnambougou Moussoula medical clinic, Dr. Dramane Coulibaly gives us explanations on the best appropriate weapons to prevent pathology. This is defined as a parasitic infection transmitted by the bite of the Anopheles mosquito, which ingests parasites and transmits them to man. The most common form of malaria in Africa – and particularly in Mali – is plasmodium falciparum. The wintering creates conditions conducive to the proliferation of mosquitoes, vectors of the disease with the deterioration of the environment and the unhealthiness which promote its spread.
According to Dr. Coulibaly, in this rainy season, it is crucial to watch over to the most vulnerable subjects that are children under the age of 5 and pregnant women. These layers are the most exposed by pathology, even if everyone can be affected.
However, there are many prevention strategies, indicates our interlocutor, for whom the approach must start with hygiene and particularly public hygiene (environmental sanitation) and intra-domiciliary spray. In second place, it recommends the use of mosquito nets impregnated with insecticides as well as the use of CPS campaigns (chemomio-prevention-seasonal) which consist in administering medicines to children under 5 years of age. For pregnant women, intermittent preventive treatment is more appropriate, it supports, insisting on the importance of prevention measures to stem the propagation of malaria.
In short “better to prevent than cure,” advises Dr. Dramane Coulibaly to the public, emphasizing the importance of hygiene measures: avoiding leaving stagnant wastewater, weeding courses, etc. And to call to follow the children closely by ensuring that they sleep exclusively under the mosquito nets imbued with insecticide and are well protected during this wintering period.
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