China's anti-malaria drug hailed as 'life-saving' in Togo
On the spot in the pediatric of Regional Central Hospital of Lome Commune, Miracle Dike, a four year Nigerian girl, is admitted as she has complicated malaria.
According to pediatrician Palanga-Awoussi, the four year girl was brought in a very critical state with anemia and has received blood transfusion.
"She could not stand, eat and speak when I brought her. Now she can do all these, thanks to the cares provided," Theresa Dike, 28-year-old mother of Miracle Dike, told Xinhua.
Dr. Abraham Atekpe, practitioner at the medicine in the same hospital center, explained that the resort to artemisinin and related based combination drugs yielded good results and no dangerous side effects are recorded.
"I am very pleased that Tu Youyou is awarded a Nobel Prize," he said, adding that he welcomes the awarding of this acknowledgement and salutes the researcher.
He went on to say that, awarding this prize will be very incentive for many other researchers and will fast track discoveries.
The Regional Central Hospital of Lome Commune is one of reference hospital centers in Togo and "has about 98 percent cure rate in malaria management," Yakoubou Sadicou, the general director told Xinhua.
"Malaria is the first cause of consultations and of hospitalizations in the center," he said.
According to data made available, the Regional Central Hospital registered in 2014 about 3,260 cases of malaria at emergency door, 2,005 malaria cases in pediatric and 729 malaria cases in general medicine. They represent, respectively, 29.61 percent, 34.39 percent and 20.07 percent of patients consulted and admitted in each of the specific fields.
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