10 May 2008
Luanda — Active search for patients suffering from the sleeping sickness has come to a halt due to lack of money to maintain mobile teams, Angop learnt.
The director of the Institute of Fight Against Sleeping Sickness (ICCt), JosenandoTeofilo, said the institution has just been carried out passive activities, in centres of diagnosis and treatment of the seek.
Other activity is the assistance to patients seeking the medical services for the first time, he said, adding that the fight against this illness is mainly the work by the mobile teams and fixed ones.
If the situation prevails, he warned, the illness can spread and more victims may be recorded.
Between January and March this year, 9.086 cases were examined, diagnosed 72 and two deaths.
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