World Pneumonia Day (Replay)
Audio 48:30
Rwanda pneumonia vaccination campaign (screenshot).
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
50 min
On the occasion of World Pneumonia Day, we are focusing on pneumonia in children.
This infection of the lungs is caused either by bacteria, viruses or fungi.
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According to the WHO, pneumonia is responsible for 15% of the total number of deaths in children under 5.
Chills, fever, heavy cough, rapid and difficult breathing, loss of appetite, chest pain or stomach pain are the main signs.
When to vaccinate children?
What treatments are available?
With
:
Prof. Ralph Epaud,
Head of the Pediatrics Department, responsible for the Reference Center for Rare Respiratory Diseases and the Resource and Skills Center for Cystic Fibrosis, at the Inter-municipal Hospital Center of Créteil.
Pr Mamadou Ba,
pediatrician-pulmonologist, former head of the Emergency Department and Pulmonology at the Albert Royer de Fann Children's Hospital, in Dakar, Senegal and president of the Senegalese Association of Pediatric Pulmonology (ASEPP).
At the end of the program, we find the chronicle of
Dr Jean-Marc Sène
, sports doctor and the French Judo team.
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