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 Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:28 am Post subject: HEALTHCARE IN COTE D'IVOIRE / COTE D'IVOIRE HOSPITAL GUIDE |
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HEALTHCARE IN COTE D'IVOIRE
GENERAL
The public medical services are more important than the small number of private physicians and clinics. In 1990, the country had 1,020 doctors, 135 pharmacists, 219 dentists, 3,691 nurses, and 1,533 midwives. As of 1999, there were an estimated 0.1 physicians and 0.8 hospital beds per 1,000 people. About 77% of the population had access to safe water in 2000. Total health care expenditures as of 1999 were estimated at 3.7% of GDP.
Malaria, yellow fever, sleeping sickness, yaws, leprosy, trachoma, and meningitis are endemic. A broad program was set up in 1961 to control these and other diseases; compulsory vaccination against smallpox and yellow fever was instituted, efforts by mobile health units to track down cases and provide treatment were intensified, and general health measures were tightened both within the country and at the borders. In 1999, the country immunized children up to one year old as follows: diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus, 62%, and measles, 62%. In 1999, there were 375 reported cases of tuberculosis per 100,000 people and there were 4,993 cases of cholera in 1995. Malnutrition affected 24% of children under five years old.
At the end of 2001 the number of people living with HIV/AIDS was estimated at 770,000 (including 9.7% of the adult population) and deaths from AIDS that year were estimated at 75,000. HIV prevalence in 1999 was 10.76 per 100 adults. The high incidence of HIV/AIDS is attributed to a lack of HIV education programs.
DIRECTORY OF HOSPITALS & CLINICS
Hopital de Port Bouet
Abidjan
Tel: +225 2127 8500
Institut de Cardiologie
Abidjan
Tel: +225 2125 8129
Fax: +225 2125 9210
Polyclinique Internationale De L' Indenie
4, Bd de L' Indenie,
Plateau,
Abidjan
Tel: +225 2021 5353
Fax: +225 2022 8159
Polyclinique Internationale Sainte Anne-Marie
Avenue J. Blohorn,
Abidjan
Tel: +225 2244 5132
Fax: +225 2244 6860
Polyclinique la Madone
Boulevard du Gabon,
Marcory Hibiscus,
Abidjan
Tel: +225 2126 1456
Fax: +225 2126 6534 |
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