It has become a custom for Iprosarude (Initiative for Rural Health Promotion and Development) to raise awareness against the new coronavirus. Trained community mobilizers are already at work deep in the hills. Community radio is another means exploited by Iprosarude.
Through the community radio stations, this organization organized this Friday, November 27, 2020 a day of awareness and prevention against covid-19 in order to reach as many people as possible.
Invited on radio Humuriza FM, this Friday 27th in the Burundian political capital, Gitega, Claver Ndagijimana, a nurse at the Polyclinic Espoir de Gitega for Iprosarude and trained in prevention against Covid-19, stressed that these radio broadcasts aim to promote good practices of prevention and protection against the coronavirus in the community. He then recalled that Covid-19 is a disease that can be easily avoided if one follows the barrier measures: washing hands very regularly, coughing or sneezing into one’s elbow, greeting without shaking hands, avoiding hugs, using disposable tissues, wearing a surgical mask when sick.
Indeed, Burundi has not been spared by Covid-19. The three-month mass screening campaign resulted in the discovery of a total of 612 Covid-19 positive cases, 160 of which were imported for 549 recoveries, one death and 62 currently under medical follow-up, according to updated data from the Ministry of Health in Burundi.
In view of these figures, Mr. Claver urged all radio listeners not to let their guard down as cases may increase from one moment to the next.
It was pointed out that these awareness sessions against Covid-19 are part of the strategy developed by the government to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and the firm measures adopted by the highest state authorities in Burundi: Ndakira, sinandura kandi sinanduza translated literally, I heal, do not contaminate myself, nor contaminate others”.
E.Allickan Niragira
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