Guinea is an African country. It is located in West Africa – Sub-Saharan Region. It is located between Guinea Bissau and Senegal in the north; Mali and Cote d’Ivoire in the east; Liberia and Sierra Leone in the south and Atlantic Ocean in the West. Guinea has four natural regions: coastal plain; mountainous region; savanna region; and a forest region. “Total area: 94,927 sp mi (245,861 sq km); Population (2013 est.): 11,176,026 (growth rate: 2.64%); birth rate: 36.3/1000; life expectancy: 59; Capital and largest city (2009 est.): Conakry; 1.597 million; Monetary unit: Guinean franc; Flag: Red, Yellow, and Green; Anthem: Liberty; Languages: French (official), native tongues (Malinke, Susu, Fulani); Religions: Islam 85%, Christian 8%, and indigenous
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The country is faced with economic problems. It has also major health problems. There are communicable diseases and non communicable diseases in Guinea as well. Nowadays, the burden disease is Ebola infection. But, like every sub-Saharan country, malaria is one of the deadliness diseases in the country. TB is frequent, parasitic diseases are presents. Cholera is epidemic, but sometime it remains endemic. The number of typhoid fever is high. According to IPHD (2001); “The major diseases in Guinea are: Malaria; hepatitis A; yellow fever; schistosomiasis; typhoid fever; and diarrhea. The life expectancy is 49.3 years and the infant mortality is 94.4 per 1,000 births.” Those statistics are not significantly improved since 2001. They look becoming worst. The mortality rate still remains high. All of the diseases aforementioned persist. Now; since Mars 2014, Guinea is faced with Ebola outbreak. Ebola disease is one the deadliness diseases in world. It caused the death of numbers of people in Guinea and other countries. Indeed, it is in March 2014 that Ebola Outbreaks occurred for the first time in Guinea; especially in the forest region, before spreading through all over the country, mainly in the Capital …show more content…
The country has also several local healthcare facilities. Those healthcare settings do not meet the standard of developed countries. The overall analyze shows us an improvement in some sectors like the management of Ebola outbreak. Unfortunately, other sectors have not improved. The sanitation problems wildly contribute to the bad healthcare situation in Guinea. As an example, cholera is that country was epidemic. The cholera outbreak was only observes in raining season. But, nowadays, cholera has become endemic. It is present in the country like
The country is faced with economic problems. It has also major health problems. There are communicable diseases and non communicable diseases in Guinea as well. Nowadays, the burden disease is Ebola infection. But, like every sub-Saharan country, malaria is one of the deadliness diseases in the country. TB is frequent, parasitic diseases are presents. Cholera is epidemic, but sometime it remains endemic. The number of typhoid fever is high. According to IPHD (2001); “The major diseases in Guinea are: Malaria; hepatitis A; yellow fever; schistosomiasis; typhoid fever; and diarrhea. The life expectancy is 49.3 years and the infant mortality is 94.4 per 1,000 births.” Those statistics are not significantly improved since 2001. They look becoming worst. The mortality rate still remains high. All of the diseases aforementioned persist. Now; since Mars 2014, Guinea is faced with Ebola outbreak. Ebola disease is one the deadliness diseases in world. It caused the death of numbers of people in Guinea and other countries. Indeed, it is in March 2014 that Ebola Outbreaks occurred for the first time in Guinea; especially in the forest region, before spreading through all over the country, mainly in the Capital …show more content…
The country has also several local healthcare facilities. Those healthcare settings do not meet the standard of developed countries. The overall analyze shows us an improvement in some sectors like the management of Ebola outbreak. Unfortunately, other sectors have not improved. The sanitation problems wildly contribute to the bad healthcare situation in Guinea. As an example, cholera is that country was epidemic. The cholera outbreak was only observes in raining season. But, nowadays, cholera has become endemic. It is present in the country like