Mali treats 134 gold miners turned back from Guinea
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Bamada.net
Mali is providing medical care to 134 young gold miners who arrived from Guinea, including 42 admitted to Gabriel Touré University Hospital and 92 to the commune IV reference health centre in Bamako. Two pregnant women are among the patients and one has given birth to a girl, according to Mali’s Health Ministry.
A total of 134 young Burkinabè gold miners turned back from Guinea are receiving care at two health facilities in Bamako, including 42 at Gabriel Touré University Hospital and 92 at the commune IV reference health centre, according to Bamada.net. Among those admitted to Gabriel Touré University Hospital are two pregnant women, one of whom gave birth to a girl during the past 72 hours.
Mali’s Minister of Health and Social Development, Assa Badiallo Touré, said several medical procedures, some of them major, had been carried out at the two facilities. The arrangement provides for monitoring according to patients’ condition and coordination with Civil Protection to organise the return to reception sites of people who have recovered and been authorised to leave, according to Bamada.net.
The care comes after thousands of gold miners left Siguiri, Guinea, following the suspension of gold mining in the region. It also follows the arrival of Burkinabè in Bamako seeking to return to their country, reported on 5 November.
