Very calm atmosphere yesterday at CHU Nedir Mohamed in Tizi Ouzou. There was no influx of patients. “There is nothing. These are just rumours.”He explained a medical supervisor we met in front of the emergency room, where caregivers provide patient care in the usual way.
“There is always information that frightens citizens, especially when it comes to the death of a member of the medical staff in the hospital, because the citizen is not aware of the causes of this death which may be the same reasons that led to the death of an ordinary citizen. The deaths of the other four people, within two days, certainly prompted citizens to ask questions about this coincidence.asserted a practitioner who believes that, especially when it comes to health, citizens should not trust everything said through informal channels.
He adds that this is not without consequences for both the population and the staff of health structures. Rumors can cause disaster. Our interlocutor is steaming. In the infectious disease department, the staff on duty told us that he had nothing to add to what his department head had already announced. Indeed, Professor Abdelkarim Benali denied, on Radio Tizi Ouzou, the existence of cases diagnosed with Ebola at the CHU Nadir Mohamed Hospital in Tizi Ouzou. “The deaths recorded in recent days in Nadir Muhammad Hospital are most likely due to heatstroke caused by the heat wave in the state.”He said.
“CHU Nedir Mohamed Hospital services, especially emergency cases, remain mobilized for patient care and epidemiological investigation is being carried out on the ground”He added while urging citizens not to expose themselves to heat during this exceptional period. We tried to see a responsible person at the CHU direction level, but to no avail. The permanent employee explained that there was no one to receive the press on this holiday.
However, he explained to us that a press release was posted by the same department. The same document, a copy of which was given to us, specifies that no Ebola cases have, to date, been confirmed. “It is not registered on the territory of the state, false information circulates”. “If the majority of consultants with heatstroke and heatstroke end up going home after emergency care, unfortunately five deaths have been recorded in the last 48 hours.
In this very private context that accompanies the tragic loss of a practitioner practicing within the institution, which occurred last Sunday, a wave of rumors has spread, particularly on the Web, creating a climate of anxiety among the local population.We also read in the same text.
The latter informed that an emergency meeting, which brought together specialists in infectious diseases, epidemiology, resuscitation, laboratory and microbiology, was held on Tuesday at the end of the day in order to study the situation and organize the implementation of a special preventive regime. But, add the press release editors, “In light of the exchange and review of the files of the deceased patients, it was concluded that there is no path that would lead, even then, towards a viral infection, let alone an epidemic.”.
The CHU of Tizi Ouzou is a hospital establishment that takes care not only of patients evacuated from health structures in Tizi Ouzou but also from other wilayas such as Boumerdes, Bouira and Bejaia. CHU Nedir Mohamed Hospital welcomes patients from many parts of the country. This is why, when a rumor appears, its impact reverberates even beyond the province of Tizi Ouzou.
