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Loutété Hospital, Congo-Brazzaville.
The Development Action Center (CAD) presented this Tuesday, February 22, 2022 its report on the state of human rights in the Congo. Result of a survey conducted for almost a year. This NGO affirms that the rights related to access to health are permanently violated in the country which it presents as ” a medical desert of 342,000 square kilometres.
With our correspondent in Brazzaville, Loïcia Martial
It was in front of the press that Trésor Nzila, executive director of the CAD, presented this 77-page report which he immediately put online to facilitate its access to all sensitivities. For this human rights defender, in Congo, the health offer is mediocre.
« Public money is wasted »
« Our authorities go abroad for treatment because they are aware that our hospitals are poor. Public money is squandered and our authorities are not improving the health situation. In the Congo, you shouldn’t be sick when you don’t have money, otherwise you die. The Congo is a medical desert of 342,000 square kilometers “, he denounced.
Trésor Nzila illustrates his point by describing a Pool health center located just regarding twenty kilometers south of Brazzaville: “ The Integrated Health Center (CSI) in Goma Tsé Tsé has no beds, no ambulances. Hospitalized persons are obliged to spread out mats or loincloths to sleep. And, when there is an emergency situation, you have to negotiate with the army (which is on the spot) so that it provides a vehicle. When this army vehicle is not available, you have to negotiate with the Catholic Church. Otherwise the patient is transported in a wheelbarrow. »
The CAD report has so far not prompted any reaction from the authorities.
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