By RFIPalled on 16-08-2019Modified on 16-08-2019 at 23:09
After the scandal of the baby amputated for lack of proper care, the Malian government has released Wednesday, August 14 15 billion CFA francs to renovate public hospitals in the capital. Five billion CFA francs are reserved for the Gabriel-Touré hospital. In this establishment, the largest in Mali, one in four children dies after hospitalization.
A fortnight ago Fatoumata lost her right arm. She is amputated a week after being hospitalized in the largest public institution in the country. In Gabriel-Touré, the pediatric ward is short of equipment. No devices to control the heart rate, or the blood pressure or respiratory, reads in the last report of the Malian Auditor General. In 2017, almost all the deaths that occurred at Gabriel-Touré Hospital (96%) were recorded in pediatrics.
This Wednesday, the file for the rehabilitation of certain services, the supply and installation of medical equipment is passed in Council of Ministers. It is the Ivorian company Marylis BTP, of the Snedai group, which obtained the markets. Five billion CFA francs are allocated to the University Hospital Center of Bamako.
Is it an announcement effect a few days after the scandal of the amputated baby? Work has already begun since March, says the direction of the Gabriel-Toure Hospital. Eventually, the technical platform will be upgraded with the acquisition of, among other things, two scanners, ultrasound scanners, equipment for the operating theaters, explains the Ministry of Health. No MRI (medical resonance imaging) device is yet planned.
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