BURUNDI - HEALTH: - “FREE FOR THE MOMS AND THEIR CHILDREN UP TO FIVE YEARS ! ” -

AGNEWS - DAM - NY, 30/05/2006

“ If each commune or local entity  can have its center of health, with a provincial management of the hospitals of reference, and “Bujumbura " with hospitals of the university type, specialized centers and laboratories of national expertise etc.  So! The price to pay to guarantee, an equality of the citizens with respect to health! In these terms, government NKURUNZIZA cuts practices of the last one radically ! The bringing together of its citizens initially ! ”

The recent measurement of the Head of State NKURUNZIZA Pierre to manage the free care of health to the women during the childbirth and the children of less than five years is set up little by little in an effective way. A true success… Proof, the influence growing in front of the hospitals and various Burundian centers.

The ministry for the Public health will more or less place at the disposal 2 billion Fbu for the purchase drugs and a redeployment of the personnel health to solve the problem of lack inside the country.

The profit mothers represent one 1/4 of all the moms of the country, a relatively small figure considering the number of women who die inside the country following a childbirth. The step is taken but the way is still long!

The distresses in this sector rises from the practices from last (1) where the management of the territory was heedless of the problems of company. The decentralization which the new government carries out interest enormously among these men and women of the silence of the ICRC whose only God knows how much their voluntary work safe lives daily!

(1) REGIME  MICOMBERO-BAGAZA-BUYOYA (R_MBB) (*)(*)(*)

                                                                                    AGNEWS 2006