AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Sicknesses connected with poverty still main cause of death for 700,000 people in Beira. CUAMM, Doctors with Africa, undertake public health intervention

Tuesday, 11 January 2005

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Rome (Fides Service) - Since January 2004 Beira and the healthcare district of Dondo, 30 km from the city are the object of an intervention of public health undertaken by CUAMM Doctors with Africa to improve the health conditions of people in these two areas densely populated and strategically important for the whole region of central Mozambique.
In these two districts the predominant pathologies are generally connected with poverty, lack of hygiene, limited access to clean water, low level of instruction, malnutrition. The main causes of death are infective and parasitic diseases such as malaria, intestinal infections AIDS, respiratory infections TB and pathologies connected with pregnancy and birth.
From January to May 2004, in the district of Dondo, there were 780 cases of cholera and fortunately only one person died.
CUAMM aims to improve diagnostic and treatment capacities and competence of health personal. The programme includes funds to pay local nursing a paramedical staff and purchase essential sanitary material for outpatients department and to restructure a large health centre in the district of Dondo. (AP) (11/1/2005 Agenzia Fides; Righe:20; Parole: 227)