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Dakar, July 23 (APS) – The regions of Thiès and Dakar are areas where the "missing" cases of tuberculosis are very heavy, explained the communication officer of the National Tuberculosis Control Program. (PNT), Nene Diallo Diagne.
'' These two regions are areas with high TB burden, '' she said Saturday in an interview with APS at the closing of the International Health and Medical Equipment Exhibition. Dakar (SISDAK).
"For the missing cases, it is mainly people who are coughing or who have suffered from tuberculosis and who have not yet gone to the health facilities to be tested or to be cared for", she explained.
"The populations of Dakar and Thiès should have the reflex to go to be screened in case of prolonged cough," Diagne said, noting that tuberculosis is a "stigmatizing disease".
In addition, there is a banalization of coughs in Senegal and Africa, which means that people do not have the reflex to go to a health facility to find out their origin.
Diagne, it is even a paradox that the regions of Dakar and Thiès are quoted as "attic" of the missing cases of tuberculosis, in view of the availability of the information necessary for a good management. [19659002]
Paradoxically, she says, it is in this region where tuberculosis is the least known, such as Saint-Louis, Kaolack, Ziguinchor and Diourbel, where we find the largest number of patients. [19659002]
She is nonetheless optimistic about the ability the NTP to circumscribe the disease in these high-burden areas, thanks to the communication and sensitization activities carried out there, especially at the community level.
'' It is a disease which was unknown and which touches especially young people who, with the advent of social networks where we communicate more and more, begin to know what it is that tuberculosis '', reassures Néné Diallo Diagne.
For the research of the cases missing, it reveals that there is a mobile radiology unit that crisscrosses regions with high load for advanced strategies, as well as the prison environment to detect cases of tuberculosis.
'' That is a closed environment and we go there for early detection sessions because the development of the disease in these places can lead to difficulties. Why we go there to collect suspected cases and if necessary, ensure care ", she says.
The communication officer of the NTP has also welcomed the good management of the identified cases and the satisfactory rate of cure estimated at 90%
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