Press Release
The Director General of WAHO at the funeral of the Speaker of Parliament of Burkina Faso, Salifou DIALLO
Date: 2017-08-28 16:41:54 ID: 1702 Bobo-Dioulasso, 25 August 2017 – Following the death of the Speaker of Parliament of Burkina Faso, H.L. Salifou DIALLO, the Director General WAHO participated in the various funeral ceremonies organised in Ouagadougou. Thus, on Wednesday 23 August, the DG witnessed the arrival of the body at the Ouagadougou International Airport, in the presence of several...
Café Istanbul attack: ECOWAS present 30 million CFAF to Burkina Faso
Date: 2017-08-17 20:02:42 ID: 1700 ECOWAS representatives, through the West Africa Health Organisation (WAHO) presented to the Burkinabè State a sum of 30 million CFAF, to support the treatment of persons wounded after the café Aziz Istanbul attack . That was on Thursday 17 August 2017 at the Yalgado Ouédraogo hospital. The West Africa Health Organization (WAHO) presented a sum...
Preparation and response to epidemics in West Africa: WAHO presents reagents and laboratory consumables to Burkina Faso
Date: 2017-07-22 08:16:42 ID: 1675 Worth 36 million CFA francs , WAHO’s donation to the Ministry of health Burkina Faso aims at supporting the implementation of its response plan to possible epidemics. In December 2010, Burkina Faso undertook a preventive mass immunisation campaign against meningococcus A meningitis. Since then, the number of cases of meningitis has considerably reduced from 6,837cases...