Chad : 2,278 people screened for non-communicable diseases2,278 diseases

This is what the report of the non-communicable diseases screening campaign indicates, presented during a restitution ceremony on 27 April 2023, at the Ministry of Public Health and Prevention.

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Four sites have been identified for this campaign. These included the Diguel market, the Dembé market, the central market and the national reference university hospital. Organised by the “one day” project, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the aim was to screen people for these chronic non-communicable diseases free of charge over two days at four sites in order to improve
the quality of care provided to the population. During the two-day campaign, 2,278 people were screened. According to information on the national website tchadinfos.
com, the CHU of the National Reference,
384 (16.9%), the central market 436 (19.1%), Dembé market 806 (35.4%) and Diguel market 652 (28.6%).
According to gender, the number of men is 1,822 or 80% and women 456 or 20%. Prof. Ibrahim Hamat, coordinator of the campaign, said that to achieve this objective,
several activities were carried out, including
preparatory meetings, training of screening staff, radio and television broadcasts,
advertising spots, design of banners, and visits of journalists to the departments for interviews with doctors. He also said that the first edition of the campaign was a success for the team with 2,278 people screened, 40% of whom have a health problem.
“This is why an in-depth campaign in several localities with teams could be more beneficial for the patients and the Ministry of Public Health and Prevention.
Analysis of the data
As no work is perfect, a few recommendations
were made on the organisational level, including giving the screening teams time to prepare, training the staff and avoiding the periods of Lent, high heat and the rainy season. For screening, it is proposed to extend the campaign to the whole of the national territory, to make the necessary funds available to the screening
teams, to provide the teams with a statistician to compile and analyse the data and to separate the programme for the fight against non-communicable diseases
from the general programme.