Libreville, Thursday April 13, 2023 (Infos Gabon) – The scientific days organized since yesterday in Libreville by the EM Gabon-University group aim to take stock of these pathologies considered as silent killers.
The Libreville School of Health (ESL), part of the EM-University group, has been holding its first scientific days since yesterday and until Thursday on the theme of chronic non-communicable diseases. With the central theme: “Chronic non-communicable diseases: challenges and prospects in the training of health professionals by private higher education establishments in Gabon”, this reflection led by national and international experts aims to take stock of the places of these pathologies in order to better organize the care of patients. These include hypertension, diabetes, sickle cell disease, epilepsy and other respiratory diseases considered to be silent killers.
In his inaugural lesson on “Chronic non-communicable diseases in children in Gabon: prevention and management”, Professor Simon Ategbo said that “today, it is important to emphasize a certain number of items related to non-communicable diseases. In particular, arterial hypertension, childhood obesity, nutritional deficiencies, childhood cancers, childhood diabetes and childhood kidney disease”.
For the organizers of these scientific days, the goal was to mobilize the éminences grises to initiate a reflection on these pathologies which wreak havoc within society. “The need was to mobilize experts on an absolutely important theme, chronic non-communicable diseases; myself who speaks to you I am a living witness of the arterial hypertension which I discovered by chance. However, many of those who have strokes are hypertensive who ignore themselves, and unfortunately when the stroke happens it’s too late,” said Professor Daniel Franck Idiata, president of the EM Gabon-University group.
At the end of the work, a memorandum will be sent to the President of the Republic, Head of State, Ali Bongo Ondimba by the care of the Minister of Health, Dr Guy Patrick Obiang Ndong. Through this document, the EM Gabon-University group intends to make its contribution to the management of these pathologies and the improvement of the health offer of nurses, midwives, speech therapists who are on a daily basis at the bedside of patients in these different pathologies.
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