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- Title
ETUDE DE LA DISPONIBILITE DES MEDICAMENTS UTILISES DANS LA PRISE EN CHARGE THERAPEUTIQUE DES ENFANTS AGES DE MOINS DE 5 ANS DANS LA REGION DE DAKAR AU SENEGAL.
- Authors
Sow, Papa Gallo; Bop, Martialcoly; Diop, Assane; Ka, Ousseynou; Diop, Cheikh Tacko; Leye, Mamadou Mokhtar M'Backe; Niang, Mouhamadou Mansour
- Abstract
Introduction: In Senegal, the main causes of death are the pneumonia, the diarrhea and the malaria. The malnutrition is an underlying factor in more than a third of the deaths, because it returns the more vulnerable children to the serious illnesses. The general objective of this research is to study the availability and the price of medicine in the therapeutic care of the children of less than 5 years old in the region of Dakar in Senegal. Methodology: Our study is of transverse, descriptive concerned the public sanitary, the wholesalers, the private pharmacies, The population of study concerns the old children at least of 5ans. The methods used were the interviews by means of questionnaire.. Results: The group of antibiotics, acid anti, antidotes, vitamins, diuretics, antiemetic's, and psychotropic were not available. As regards generic medicines, relatively low availability of 30,4 %, 23,8 % and 16,7 % is respectively observed in the public, private and denominational sectors. The availability of generic medicines in Dakar was from 81 % in the public sector and from 113 % in the private sector. Conclusion: The findings make it imperative for all other relevant medicine drugs in order to reduce the mortality rate.
- Publication
Mali Médical, 2022, Vol 37, Issue 4, p48
- ISSN
0464-7874
- Publication type
Article