Pandemic prevention also requires quality infrastructure and equipment. Yesterday, during the debates in the context of the Scientific Days on AIDS, Pr Amadou Mactar Dièye asked for the installation of laboratories of excellence in all regions of the country.
Health actors acknowledge that the Covid-19 pandemic has prompted authorities to take action on the health system. But there is still work to be done. In any case, it is the opinion of the director of the Laboratories. At the opening of the Scientific Days on AIDS, which ends this Thursday, Pr Amadou Mactar Dièye asked for the installation of laboratories of excellence in all the regional capitals of the country. According to Pr Dièye, in addition to human resources, we must have infrastructures and equipment, but above all laboratories. And to explain: “When I was appointed Director of the Laboratories, I thought that the results of the laboratories, wherever they come from, are not questionable, that they are reliable. If a lab gives negative results, it’s a disaster. Medicine relies on laboratory results to be able to cure patients. The laboratory is important. Without the lab, the doctor is blind. Diagnosis allows you to monitor the effectiveness of the treatment, the viral load and even certify the cure.
Likewise, he insisted that “we must think of an efficient laboratory system”, because “without a laboratory there is no diagnosis, and without a diagnosis there is no cure”. And the Pr Dièye to launch an appeal: “We must set up laboratories everywhere capable of carrying out the analyzes that the populations need”. During his speech, the Director of Laboratories recalled that at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic “most of the tests were done in Dakar”. According to him, “it was after 3 months that there was a decentralization in this direction”. And to beg: “We want us to work in this direction by developing a special program for laboratory development. We would like to have a laboratory of excellence in each regional capital. Therefore, no one will leave one region to go to another, whether it is an epidemic or routine care.
Furthermore, for a better fight against pandemics, Pr Amadou Mactar Dièye believes that it is also necessary to have rapid intervention funds that can be easily mobilized.
In addition, the executive secretary of CNLS stressed that the Covid-19 pandemic has prompted the authorities to act on the health system. According to Dr Safiétou Thiam, now “we must identify and strengthen the health system” because she, she warns, “we are not done with the pandemics yet”. It is in this sense, he continues, that the experts decided to work together to identify needs by setting up a committee that would act as a framework for reflection. The question today is “how to be prepared not to be surprised by other pandemics”.
According to Professor Amadou Mactar Dièye, “all countries must have a solid health system, regardless of whether there is a pandemic or not”. The Director General of the Senegal Laboratories thinks that we must already prepare ourselves. “It is true that in Senegal we have a quality health system for good management of the health of the population. But we also need quality human resources in the field of surveillance, detection and treatment, “he insisted.
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