#BISSAU HOJE!

Por: Miguel de Barros
Fonte: Albano Barai

Insisto: é necessário adequar a operacionalidade a uma estratégia com objetivos, metas e resultados na prevenção, gestão e combate ao #Covid19. Essa estratégia deve ter uma base sanitária, social e económica para puder se adequar ao confinamento sob pena de falhanço‬.

Há-que reinterpretar o sentido e função do “estado de emergência” enquanto uma base de mobilização dos agentes para-militares e de segurança no apoio às unidades sanitárias em termos de capacidade logística e humanitária.

A abordagem na implicação da sociedade civil de ser capaz de mobilizar os agentes de saúde comunitária e as ONGs que intervêm na área de saúde comunitária para os serviços de proximidade e alerta precoce:

Devemos melhorar o nosso sistema de registo e informação diário dos boletins clínicos: implica maior investimento laboratorial e mobilização plena do Instituto Nacional da Saúde Pública, acompanhada de apetrechamento e formação directa dos médicos numa unidade especializada só para pacientes de #Covid19.

É necessário ativar uma comunicação mais mobilizadora e geradora de impacto: rádios comunitárias são quase quatro dezenas devem estar a ser abordado ao nível da comunicação para a saúde.

Complementarmente, um plano de abastecimento social (incluindo a componente alimentar com capacidade vitamínico) deve ser rapidamente elaborado e adoptado para cobertura às famílias e grupos mais vulneráveis e famílias pobres.

Estamos ainda a tempo de conter as infeções e salvar vidas de todos que vivem na Guiné-Bissau 🇬🇼.

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COVID-19: 18 Chinese Experts Coming To Share Experince, Nothing More - NOA DG

Dr Garba Abari, Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), said on Saturday that the Federal Government was not importing Chinese medical experts to directly take charge of the fight against Covid-19 pandemic.

Abari stated this when he featured on a Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) live programme in Abuja.

He explained that the 18-man Chinese medical team was only coming to share experience with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on how the pandemic was handled in China.

“Whatever information the Chinese medical team made available to NCDC will be filtered and applied to address the peculiar challenges of the country on handling Covid-19 scourge.

“This is a global pandemic and from wherever assistance comes, you cannot reject it.

“For instance, the United States is opening its doors to all volunteers that will come and assist them because they are also getting overwhelmed.

“Despite its fine medical facilities and expertise, US is now saying any form of assistance coming from anywhere that will add value to the fight against Covid-19 is welcome.

“It is not as if the government of Nigeria is not appreciating efforts of its own medical experts. This is the time when Nigeria is proud and appreciating its own medical experts and showcasing its best.

“This is the time that Nigeria is mopping all its competent hands, both active and inactive, and bringing them together with a view to ensure that we beef up competent human capacity required to address the issue at hand,” he said.

Abari, who said that humanity is being challenge by Covid-19, stressed the need for everybody to contribute meaningfully to the war against the virus.

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***Na Da Nha Opinion Na Lugar De Nantoi***

Por Papa Jomav 

Sí nó ka para nô pença, nó na sedu pior, dí qui kilis ku nó fala bah é ka bali, ou guintis ku nô fala é ká sibí Governa, dípus no na saí mal na topó de tudu governo, ku passa ná Guine.

Otcha nó na asina acordo de apoia, Canditura de General Umaro Sissoco, nó inisiativa, e era bah pui paigc ná opisição, ná sintidu de nó reconstrui nô estado, pa construí um estado sã, qui na tiisinu desenvolvimento social, pah nó pudi incaria fundo, pa no pudí cría infrastrutura pa nó jovens pudi tene vida saudavel, n'pensa ês qui era bah obijectivos de nó union na eleiçon presidencial dí segunda volta.

Si a nôs tudu nó lambu é kulpa nô pul na nó cabeça, sim pul na A ou B, Deus na djudanu no na tene bah saída, ma kada um dí nós na mostra, e mas tene familias purparadu pa ocupa cargo na aparelhos dí estado, sim fassi concurso publico, dipus ka nô disquici a nós ika vencidor de eleiçon #Legislativa, purtanto kada quim tem qui sibi segura se ambição, pabia povo sinta é na djubinu, kuma ku no na vira vira na duranti di nó Governaçon, nó ka pudi kaba som na paga salario de funcionarios, má povo esta na bancada, na espera que ki no pirmiti elis duranti campanha di eleiçon presidencial. Pabia n'ganha purmeiro bias ka siguinifica, kuma utrus bias no kana riba mas na se mon pa bai pidi voto.

Nô volta sigui, edeologia politica de Amilcar Lopes Cabral, nunde qui fala ika tudu guintis qui bai luta kuna entra na aparelho de estado, má nó tem qui dissa guintis kuna bim danu kontrada pa é entra ku puder de Governaçon, mas kila kata tudjinu critica ora ku nó odja n'kussas qui ka esta diritu, na aparelho de estado, pabia si bô falhia em bias, pa bô sibi povo na bim julganu na #Urna . A nôs tudu e kulpadu desdi purmeiro dia qui no seta nomeação de #Suzy_Carla_Barbosa, más quila ka dibidi sedu refém di guintis continua cumiti mesmo erro.

Nô Lanta Nô Firma Pa Djuda Nunu Gomes Nabian Qui General Umaro Sissoco Embalo.

African elite who once sought treatment abroad are grounded

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2017, file photo released by the Nigeria State House, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, center, walks upon his arrival at the airport in Abuja, Nigeria, after returning from more than three months in London for medical treatment. The coronavirus pandemic could narrow one gaping inequality in Africa, where some heads of state and other elite jet off to Europe or Asia for health care unavailable in their nations but as global travel restrictions tighten, they might have to take their chances at home. (Sunday Aghaeze/Nigeria State House via AP, File)

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic could narrow one gaping inequality in Africa, where some heads of state and other elite jet off to Europe or Asia for health care unavailable in their nations. As countries including their own impose dramatic travel restrictions, they might have to take their chances at home.

For years, leaders from Benin to Zimbabwe have received medical care abroad while their own poorly funded health systems limp from crisis to crisis. Several presidents, including ones from Nigeria, Malawi and Zambia, have died overseas.

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 13, 2018, file photo, Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa, right, sits with his Deputy Constantino Chiwenga, left, during a Heroes' Day event in Harare, Zimbabwe. The coronavirus pandemic could narrow one gaping inequality in Africa, where some heads of state and other elite jet off to Europe or Asia for health care unavailable in their nations but as global travel restrictions tighten, they might have to take their chances at home. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

The practice is so notorious that a South African health minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, a few years ago scolded, “We are the only continent that has its leaders seeking medical services outside the continent, outside our territory. We must be ashamed.”

Now a wave of global travel restrictions threatens to block that option for a cadre of aging African leaders. More than 30 of Africa’s 57 international airports have closed or severely limited flights, the U.S. State Department says. At times, flight trackers have shown the continent’s skies nearly empty.

Perhaps “COVID-19 is an opportunity for our leaders to reexamine their priorities,” said Livingstone Sewanyana of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, which has long urged African countries to increase health care spending.

But that plea has not led to action, even as the continent wrestles with major crises including deadly outbreaks of Ebola and the scourges of malaria and HIV.

Spending on health care in Africa is roughly 5% of gross domestic product, about half the global average. That’s despite a pledge by African Union members in 2001 to spend much more. Money is sometimes diverted to security or simply pilfered, and shortages are common.

Ethiopia had just three hospital beds per 10,000 people in 2015, according to World Health Organization data, compared to two dozen or more in the U.S. and Europe. Central African Republic has just three ventilators in the entire country. In Zimbabwe, doctors have reported doing bare-handed surgeries for lack of gloves.

Health experts warn that many countries will be overwhelmed if the coronavirus spreads, and it is already uncomfortably close. Several ministers in Burkina Faso have been infected, as has a top aide to Nigeria’s president. An aide to Congo’s leader died. For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms.

“If you test positive in a country, you should seek care in that country,” the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. John Nkengasong, told reporters Thursday. “It’s not a death sentence.”

In Nigeria, some worried their president might be among the victims. Long skittish about President Muhammadu Buhari’s absences from public view, including weeks in London for treatment for unspecified health problems, they took to Twitter to ask why he hadn’t addressed the nation as virus cases rose.

Buhari’s office dismissed speculation about his whereabouts as unfounded rumor. When he did emerge Sunday night, he announced that all private jet flights were suspended. International airports were already closed.

An even more frequent overseas traveler, Cameroon’s 87-year-old leader, President Paul Biya, faces rising criticism over his public absence since the virus spread to his country. Cases in Cameroon leapt Friday to over 500, the second most in the sub-Saharan region after South Africa.

While travel restrictions have grounded the merely wealthy, political analyst Alex Rusero said a determined African leader probably could still find a way to go abroad for care.

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, file photo, vehicles are seen leaving the Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore where former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe had received medical treatment in the years before his death. The coronavirus pandemic could narrow one gaping inequality in Africa, where some heads of state and other elite jet off to Europe or Asia for health care unavailable in their nations but as global travel restrictions tighten, they might have to take their chances at home. (AP Photo/Danial Hakim, File)

“They are scared of death so much they will do everything within their disposal, even if it’s a private jet to a private hospital in a foreign land,” said Rusero, who is based in Zimbabwe, whose late President Robert Mugabe often sought treatment in Asia.

Perhaps nowhere is the situation bleaker than in Zimbabwe, where the health system has collapsed. Even before the pandemic, patients’ families were often asked to provide essentials like gloves and clean water. Doctors reported using bread bags to collect patients’ urine.

Zimbabwe’s vice president, Constantino Chiwenga, departed last month for unrelated medical treatment in China, as the outbreak eased in that country. Zimbabwe closed its borders days later after its first virus death.

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2019, file photo, a coffin carrying the body of Zimbabwe's former ruler Robert Mugabe arrives from Singapore, at the airport in Harare, Zimbabwe. The coronavirus pandemic could narrow one gaping inequality in Africa, where some heads of state and other elite jet off to Europe or Asia for health care unavailable in their nations but as global travel restrictions tighten, they might have to take their chances at home. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Chiwenga has since returned — to lead the country’s coronavirus task force.

But some in a new generation of African leaders have been eager to show sensitivity to virus-prevention measures.

The president of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi, initially defied his country’s restrictions on travel by government employees to visit neighboring Namibia for its leader’s inauguration. But he entered self-quarantine and now reminds others to stay home, calling it “literally a matter of life and death.”

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced he had tested negative, just ahead of a three-week lockdown in Africa’s most developed country. Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has as well.

Other leaders, including Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, have tweeted images of themselves working via videoconference as countries encourage people to keep their distance.

While African leaders are more tied to home than ever, their access to medical care is still far better than most of their citizens’.

In Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, medical student Franck Bienvenu Zida was self-isolating and worried after having contact with someone who tested positive.

The 26-year-old feared infecting people where he lives, but his efforts to get tested were going nowhere. In three days of calling an emergency number to request a test, he could not get through.

Associated Press writers Sam Mednick in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Rodney Muhumuza in Kampala, Uganda, contributed to this report.

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COVID-19: Guiné-Bissau regesta 18 casos positivos. Aumento de três casos em relação aos 15 casos registrados até sexta-feira.

A atualização foi feita no princípio da tarde deste sábado pelo Centro de Operações de Emergência em Saúde.

Tumane BALDÉ da Comissão Interministerial de Combate a Coronavirus COVID-19 na Guiné-Bissau foi quem apresentou o Boletim Diário sobre a situação da pandemia COVID-19.

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