Location
Senegal is located in the west coast of Africa, known by the famouse rally more than Safari trips, dedicated to other zones in the continent.Here there are identified health problems, becasue of them Spanish doctors did a trip requested by the Director of Cooperation of the Ministry of Health of Senegal. Their objectives were to do the work in the region of ?? Kedougou frapped by isolation, misery and absence of health resources.
Symptoms
On this trip there had been the health situation is described below: Bandafassi, In the group of women of child bearing age were sensed in a high % anemias, in expectant moms being nearly 100%. The symptoms noted fatigue, wooziness, weakness, muscle pains, according to the clinical exam were due to iron deficiency and starvation in many cases.
Children
In the group of boys/girls particularly children and children under 5 years of anemia were present mostly, as well as issues of mild or moderate starvation, which were quite frequent. Cases of harsh malnutrition (marasmus) with grouses of close death were detected. Dindefelo.
The main issues identified were similar and anemia in youngsters was far more striking as well as in girls, especially pregnant women. Many malnutrition especially in women and boys/girls, being very important in children were also detected. There had been the death of 2 kids with symptoms of malnutrition (marasmus) and severe dehydration.
Solutions
Primarily based on work done by watching the socio-health of these populations and it's been decided to join forces with a medical health team that will travel to the region to improve the Region health of the population, particularly pregnant ladies and children.
Cooperation
These populations are more than 750 km from Dakar dust road, unpaved. NGOs working in Senegal they do in other parts of the country, this zone was never any NGOs working, either in the zone of health or any other field. In Tambacounda there is a non secular order clergymen working in education and health, this place is many miles from the zone where we're employed.
Yakaar Africa is a NGO (ONG Senegal) supported by Aigen Digital Marketing
