Burkina Faso: Ibrahim Traoré Donates 15 Mobile Clinics To Health Ministry

Burkinabe’s Captain Ibrahim Traoré has donated 15 equipped mobile care units and cold chain equipment to the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene.

As disclosed on his official X handle on Thursday, Traoré said the 15 mobile clinics were donated in his longed-vision to allow Burkina Faso’s brave people access specialised health care.

My vision is to allow the brave people of Burkina Faso access to specialised health care and health structures to guarantee the quality of vaccines at all levels of our health system through good conservation,” he wrote on X.

Traoré said he handed over the mobile clinics and equipment to the Ministry in the early hours of Thursday.

I am delighted with all these acquisitions, the objective of which is to improve the healthcare offering in our country. I invite the beneficiaries to make very good use of it, he added.

The development follows an anti-malaria vaccine program called the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), which was officially launched by the Health Minister, Dr Robert Kargougou, on February 5, 2024, in Koudougou, Center-West region of the country.

Its introduction, according to the Health Ministry, in Burkina Faso will help reduce cases of severe malaria and the mortality rate linked to the RTS disease.

This vaccination concerns, to date, 27 health districts in the Cascades, Centre-East, Centre-West, Centre-South, East, Sahel and South-West regions,” she added.

According to the first head of the department in charge of Health, Dr  Kargougou, these health districts were chosen to consider the seriousness of malaria and the high rate of deaths linked to this disease. He added that this vaccination will extend to other localities and that no one will be left behind.

An amount of five billion CFA francs was allocated by the State budget to acquire doses of the R21 vaccine as soon as available in order to cover as many health districts as possible,” explained Minister Kargougou.

“Vaccination concerns children aged 5 months and for this first phase, a total of 218,222 children will benefit from vaccination, says the Minister.

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