People suffering from tuberculosis in Gabon spend very difficult quarters of an hour. And due, the antibiotics which must be prescribed to them in the follow-up of their treatment miss in the hospitals where they should have more than in other places the facility to get some.
One consequence among many others, tuberculosis patients are obliged, in order to try by all means to save their lives, to place orders in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon, two neighboring countries of Gabon, which obviously manage the question of procurement of TB drugs carefully. In other words, the sea to drink when we know not only the requirements made to the patients by the doctors of the specialized hospital of Nkembo in Libreville and the hospital centers in the interior of the country, but also the dosage which is imposed on them during the a minimum of three to six months of treatment, a period during which tuberculosis patients are as if condemned to the daily absorption of several antibiotics: isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide and ethambutol, for example.
Needless to say that such a break in medication endangers patients who no longer know which saint to devote themselves to. Worrying, even very worrying, this must have been for the Gabonese authorities, of which this should be one of the main missions, that of preserving the health of the populations, especially in a context of demographic weakness and repeated announcements concerning a return to the upturn. economic. It should be noted that tuberculosis represents a real public health problem in Africa and that we can only be sure of being cured by benefiting from good therapeutic care. The Ministry of Health, which has recently made Covid-19 the center of its communications, seems to relegate to the background pathologies just as serious as tuberculosis and HIV / AIDS, whose carriers have suffered the same fate for many months. than tuberculosis patients, who have also been weaned from antiretrovirals, the only effective protection available to date to curb the spread of the virus.
