As mentioned in issue No. 3, 2005, we are directly in contact
with the people in charge of health facilities in Burkina Faso
to obtain reliable scientific information, which is not filtered
by faction-based interests, which are often also speculative.
We shall collaborate with them to focus on factors, which are
not based on the personal feelings and assessments of individuals.
A direct on site study of the current situation is useful to realize
whether we can alter de facto situations with radical interventions
organized through projects, which envisage the complete participation
of institutions in implementing, planning, establishing priorities
and assessing structural interventions to be carried out.
This can be implemented by removing patterns applied to date,
which have given no serious decisive results.
Moving away from traditional charity patterns involves making
use of the latest techniques available in industrialized nations
to alter situations in which the population has lived for years.
You will notice that this issue’s scientific section has
been translated into three languages as we mean to send physicians
operating in the Burkina Faso territory a copy of the magazine
to inform and update them concerning a serious disease directly
treated by their experts.
We invite physicians and others operating in the health sector
to send us their suggestions.
We thank Dr. Zombré, General Manager of the National Health
Service, Dr. Sanou and Dr. Tiendrébéogo for the
scientifically documented article on such a disabling disease.
As per agreements this collaboration will certainly not come to
a close with the publication of a single article, but it will
continue in time in a profitable exchange of information and training
focused on the health sector.
Genina Iacobone
Direttore di Leadership Medica
