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New Sickle Cell Research Centre in Mali
Inaugurating the building on Friday, Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure said the specialised centre was "the best equipped in west Africa" and would be "open to all the sick in our neighbouring countries seeking medicine."
"It is a Malian centre, but also a centre for all Africans. They can come and be treated, the doors are always open for them."
Equipped with state of the art equipment, the centre's orange buildings stretch over 5,000 square metres, where clinical research will take place, and specialists will receive training.
"The new equipment is adapted to the complications of the disease," according to French doctor Alain Dorie, the only expatriate permanently employed at the centre.
"Today when a sickle cell disease sufferer goes to a hospital, he is prescribed a blood transfusion and he must just manage. But here, when he has a 'blood crisis', when he arrives we take charge," he said.
According to French haemotologist Gil Tchernia "the purpose of the centre is also to detect the illness from birth. Because if it is detected early, treatment is easy and effective."
Monaco and the French Pierre Fabre Foundation will each donate between 100,000 and 135,000 euros a year until 2012 to the centre which is also financed by Mali.
The 45-year-old teacher Diallo, herself a sufferer of the disease, plans to take her 18-month-old, born with the disease, to the centre for tests next week.
"He has violent headaches, I don't know what he has exactly. It is a terrible disease.
"I am also sick, but thank God, for the moment, I am fine."
Source-AFP
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