Tenkodogo: The Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Robert Lucien Jean-Claude Kargougou, inaugurated on Monday the first hemodialysis unit of the Tenkodogo Regional Hospital Center, a real relief for some 240 patients.
Costing more than 195 million CFA francs, this infrastructure, located within the CHR, specified the first health manager, is made up of a large dialysis room, a VIP dialysis room including 12 stations hemodialysis facility, with a capacity of 60 patients for two dialysis sessions per patient per week.
The hemodialysis unit of the Tenkodogo Regional Hospital Center also includes a catheter and resuscitation room, another water treatment room with a double osmosis treatment system, a maintenance room, a maintenance room and offices for doctors.
Minister Kargougou confided that this center is the result of an innovative partnership through an agreement between his department, the CHR of Tenkodogo and the company Sibiri biomedical services.
He installed the dialysis stations, the water treat
ment room equipment, and will ensure their maintenance and staff training, all for a fee, detailed the minister.
In return, he added, the Ministry of Health will allocate a subsidy of more than 300 million CFA francs per year to the CHR of Tenkodogo to purchase hemodialysis kits exclusively from Sibiri biomedical services.
According to the governor of the region, Aboudou Karim Lamizana, citing figures reported by an association in the region, more than 70% of patients suffering from chronic insufficiency and identified at the Yalgado Ouédraogo hospital in Ouagadougou come from the Center-East.
According to the governor, from 2022 to 2023, 260 people with kidney failure in the region were identified, 240 of whom needed dialysis.
‘The Tenkodogo hemodialysis center is accessible to all dialysis patients on condition of paying 500,000 CFA francs for their entire life, except for other expenses related to non-dialysis care,’ underlined the general director of the Tenkodogo CHR, Ouaninili Thiombiano.
Those who
pay this amount will benefit from two sessions per week, said the nephrologist, Dr Arlette Palm.
The general director of Sibiri biomedical services, Mamounata Kounda /Somda, reassured that the equipment delivered is ‘high-tech and impeccable’.
It allows patients, to hear, to have quality care. Moreover, she affirmed that her company guarantees the equipment made available to the CHR of Tenkodogo.
Ms. Kouanda recalled that her structure delivered similar equipment to several health centers in Burkina Faso.
Sibiri biomedical services also works in medical imaging, laboratory consumables, healthcare facility equipment and turnkey projects.
Source: Burkina Information Agency