2024-01-25 15:05:27

Nearly 1,500 people died from malaria in 2023 in the city-province of Kinshasa alone, according to data provided by the provincial ministry of health in the Congolese capital, cited Thursday by the online media Actualité.cd.

In 2023 alone, out of some 443,960 positive malaria cases recorded, 1,583 people died from this disease.

“The latest epidemiological bulletin for 2023 from the National Malaria Control Program (PNLP) proves that confirmed cases and deaths are increasing by almost 50% in the city of Kinshasa,” indicated the provincial Minister of Health. public of Kinshasa, Liza Nembalemba, quoted by the information site.

In 2022, malaria was the leading cause of death in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with more than 13,000 deaths out of a total of more than 21 million cases. These figures were reported by the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) citing the national program to combat malaria.

As part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015, member states made a commitment to end the malaria epidemic by 2030.

The DRC is faced with a whole series of concomitant epidemics – such as yellow fever, cholera and malaria – the number of which is increasing under the effect of recent natural disasters, to the point of threatening the Congolese health system, particularly in the east of its territory, plagued by violence for almost three decades.

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