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About 3,000 children are targeted in a medical project, launched Wednesday, July 13, in the health zone of Tunda (Maniema).
According to its coordinator, De Drissa Sangare, this six-month project will take care of children under 5 years old with combined pathologies.
Entitled “Emergency medical response to the Monkeypox epidemic and primary health care”it consists in offering medicines, care, medical inputs to health centers but also the referral of patients.
Executed by the NGO Alima in three health areas of the Tunda health zone, this project also aims to improve access to health care for the case of Monkey pox.
For his part, the head doctor of the Tunda health zone, Dr Yemba Unda, welcomed the advent of this project in his zone which, according to him, is recording more cases of deaths due to Monkeypox.
But he did not specify the exact number of victims of this pathology.