The project ‘Purchase of laboratory equipment for the Luigi Tezza Health Centre in Kokumbo’ has just been completed. As we have already told you, Kokumbo is a village in the Ivory Coast, a country where there are still many shortages, especially in rural areas. For more than 10 years, the Daughters of St. Camillus have been active in the country, carrying out mainly health and welfare projects.

In 2009, they founded the Blessed Luigi Tezza Health Centre between the villages of Kokumbo and Niamkey Konankro, about 50 km from the capital Yamoussoukro. Over the years, this health centre has become a point of reference for the local population, who are able to benefit from the support of the missionaries and medical consultations for numerous illnesses, including Buruli Ulcer, a disease that continues to pose a great danger.

To increase the efficiency of the centre, Health and Development received a request for help at the beginning of the year, which we were very happy to accept by purchasing the various pieces of equipment needed to carry out a series of in-depth analyses for the early diagnosis of numerous diseases: a water distiller, an autoclave for sterilising working instruments, a water bath, a thermostat and an ichroma II immunology reader, which provides more accurate values for immunological examinations, a laminar flow hood, which protects the operator and the working environment from pathogenic microorganisms.

Let’s hope that these instruments can really improve the living and health conditions of all those most in need!