AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Burkina Faso has first centre for babies born with HIV/AIDS

Monday, 20 June 2005

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Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - Saturday 18 June was a great day of joy and hope for the S. Camillo Medical Centre in Ouagadougou where a brand new sector for infants affected by HIV/AIDS was officially inaugurated. The ward is the only one of its kind in Burkina Faso.
This little “gem” has rest rooms for the mothers and 12 cots and incubators for the infants. When the babies are old enough they will be moved to another Camillian hospital Our Lady of Fatima Medical Centre on the outskirts of Ouagadougou run by 4 Camilliani religious fully trained in nursing people with AIDS.
The new ward was blessed by Fr Salvatore Pignatelli who is a doctor and the director of the S. Camillo Medical Centre in Ouagadougou. Present for the occasion the President CIAI, Italian NGO which funded the new centre, the hospital staff, doctors and nurses, and Camillian Brothers from various homes in Burkina.
The first little patients and mothers who are also carriers of AIDS will be admitted immediately. (GG/AP) (20/6/2005 Agenzia Fides; Righe:20; Parole:187)