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THE KANIAKA VILLAGE: HEALTH |
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INFORMATION
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DESCRIPTION
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Description of the structure |
The sanitary structures
in Kaniaka are officially nonexistent. Instead of those there's
a pseudo center of health with private maternity, without equipment
and not so much attended because of the elevate prices of the
cures and medicines |
| Staff |
The center has born
for initiative of Mr. Mwangala Ngwej, nurse from the village
of Kapanga, that started its activity on Kaniaka in quality
of gold seeker, then he opened a small pharmacy in the 2001
and subsequently a center of health with maternity |
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Structure |
The building dedicated
to maternity is constructed of bricks and has the roof in straw.
Inside is divided in three small rooms with beds in bamboo and
mattresses of bag filled up with dry grass. Also the building
of the pharmacy is constructed of bricks. |
| Operation |
The nurse works alone
and operates in following fields:
- maternity,
- pediatric,
- gynecology,
- inner medicine.
N.B.: the laboratory examinations are made Lubumbashi because
in native place the necessary materials do not exist. The nurse
faces the simpler cases but for those most serious he advises
the members of the family of the patient to take him in the
hospital centers of Lubumbashi and for the urgent cases he transports
the sick in city by bicycle. It's for this reason that many
patient do not survive to the way or die in the village because
of lack of transports.
When he is absent in order to carry out the laboratory examinations,
to buy produced druggist or to make visit the sons who study
in city, the center remains closed, exept the pharmacy that
remains in the hands of the wife, instructed by the nurse.
Pregnant women have no way to have prenatal consult. Moreover
the nurse does not have all medicines necessary in order to
answer to needs of population and he cannot enjoy the aid neither
of State nor of whichever local benefactor. |
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Diseases |
The more frequent diseases
are:
- malaria,
- bronchopneumonia,
- bronchiti,
- meningiti,
- diphtheria,
- dysentery. |
| Modality of payment
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In order to pay patients
can pay with currency but in the greater part of the cases they
offer their own objects (bicycles, radio, bowls, etc). In alternative,
or the members of the families of the patients or the patients
himself after the recovery work for the nurse in order to reward
him for the carried out job |
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Rate mortality |
The mortality rate
is very elevated especially for children under 4 years old |
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social conditions
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