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The Central African Republic has a hemodialysis center and a medical imaging center, including a scanner. A great first for the country which should thus improve the care of patients.

With our correspondent in Bangui, Charlotte Cosset

Dialysis, scanner, mammography, dental panoramic… The Bangui hospital center has made considerable progress in terms of equipment. But beware, warns Abdel-Karim Zakaria, the director of the general hospital, hardware is not everything.

«One thing is to have these equipment, another thing is to have competent men to run this equipment and maintain it for the good of the population, insists the director.The big problem we are going to have is the personnel problem.. We will need to place particular emphasis on staff training and capacity building.. It's really urgent. »

Medical evacuations

These two centers should firstly help save lives, but also to partly resolve the problem of medical evacuations. “This will improve the technical platform (et) facilitate the diagnosis of our doctors, assures the President of the Republic Faustin Archange Touadera.When they do not have the means to make their diagnoses, we are forced to evacuate these patients and it costs the State dearly. We spend a lot to evacuate our patients for diagnostic reasons. »

In one year, these are 229 people who were medically evacuated at an estimated cost to the State of more than 3 billion CFA francs , or more than 4,5 millions of euros.

Source RFI: https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20201205-la-centrafrique-se-dote-d-un-scanner-et-d-un-centre-d-h%C3%A9modyalise