Update from Burkina Faso

Adam M. Roberts

Friends:



Please find below a brief report from our project in Burkina Faso. Check The $10 Club web site for additional photos!



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Thanks as ever,



Adam



Report on the Community Pharmaceutical Project, September 2006



Update from Napone, Burkina Faso



With the donation of $3,280 from the Ten dollar club, our nonprofit organization OuagaNet was able to setup a community pharmacy to help the poor people of Napone, Burkina Faso. Our health program also benefited from being able to purchase subsidized drugs and insecticide treated mosquito bed nets thanks to the Government of Burkina Faso’s new healthcare policies aiming to make drugs more accessible to people.



With the recommendations of our community nurse volunteers, we selected indigent pregnant women and those with babies and younger children to be priority beneficiaries of the insecticide treated mosquito bed net to protect them against malaria.



OuagaNet also purchased electronic blood pressure devices to take the population’s blood pressure. Those with abnormal measurements where sent for further evaluations and suggested to return to the community pharmacy to receive free high blood pressure drugs.



In setting this free community pharmacy for the village poor people, OuagaNet was able to educate villagers about STDs and AIDS and the need to be aware of high blood pressure disease. Villagers were also educated about the danger of alcoholism and its impact on blood pressure, liver diseases and many other health issues. The entire village was mobilized and came out to hear about the community pharmacy and the available drugs.



OuagaNet’s community pharmacy list of items:



1. Insecticide treated bed nets against malaria and mosquito bites



Three hundred (300) insecticide treated bed nets against mosquito causing the malaria disease were distributed in priority to the following people:

* All pregnant women
* Women with babies and younger children
* Elderly in advanced aged



2. List of drugs purchased for the pharmacy



List of Medicine


Quantity

Amodiaquine 40 mg/5ml 60 ml Sir


400

Amodiaquine chlorhydrate 200 mg Blister


4000

Amoxicilline 250 mg 60 ml Sirop


100

Amoxicilline 500 mg Blister


500

Bacitracine+Neomycine pommade


50

Bandage (Bande extensible)


50

Buscopan 10 mg tablets


1000

Carbocysteine 2% 100 ml sirop


30

Carbocysteine 5% 100 ml sirop


30

Compresse 40x40


100

Coton Hydrophile 500g


1

Cotrimoxazole 240mg/5ml 60ml Sirop


100

Cotrimoxazole 480 mg Blister


3000

Diclofenac Blister 50 mg


4000

Furosemide Blister 40 mg (High blood pressure)


7000

Hydroxyde Aluminium 500 mg Blister


1000

Ibuprofene 200 mg tablets


2000

Ibuprofene Blister 400 mg


5000

Mebendazole blister 100 mg


1000

Metronidazole 125 mg


100

Metronidazole 250 mg


1000

Multivitamin blister


2000

Paracetamol 120 mg/5ml 60 ml sirop


100

Paracetamol 500 mg Blister


5000

Polividone Iodee 10% 200 ml


10

Quinine 300 mg


500

Sparadrap 5m x 18 cm


2

Tetracycline 1% Ophtalmique


10

Vitamine B1 B6 Blister


1000





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Adam M. Roberts

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