E-drug: Experience on mobile clinics sought (cont'd)
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In West and Central Africa, there have been mobile clinics. A team
with a doctor, health assistants, technicians went over the district
according to an annual programme.
On the van there was a petroleum refrigerator and commodities for
vaccination, primary testing and care. Each team had a precise
travel for a precise time. The authority informed the population of
their coming. When they stopped in a village, the population was
provided with vaccination services, medical care, and testing. If
there was a health worker, the team could leave some commodities
according a defined list. At this level, there could be other health
workers: They left for a week by bicycle, pirogue to reach far
populations. With this approach, diseases like leprosy, sleeping
sickness, tuberculosis, onchocerciasis almost disappeared in some
countries.
There are many papers on this approach in french. You could find
information at the Centre Murraz in Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso),
in France in Marseille at the Institut de M�decine Tropicale, Le
Pharo.
Genevieve Di Schino
Pharmacist-in-Charge
Reseau Medicament et Developpement
35 rue Daviel
75013 PARIS
France
e-mail: remedgdischino@wanadoo.fr
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