Tessaout Valley is an economically depressed area with extremely poor hygienic-health conditions. In some villages, basic infrastructures such as drinking water do not exist, which impacts on health situation. Access to public services is very limited: the nearest village equipped with public sanitary network is Ait Tamlil (17km far from Ifoulou) where there is a medical room and the closest hospital is located on Demnate (80 km.). Communication between villages is very low and imposes an economic cost, which makes population access to these sanitary centers extremely difficult.
Food is poor and there is a diet with very limited variety: traditional bread, semola and very-sweet tea. They rarely eat high calcium aliments, which together with the high consumption of sugars, originate problems related to dental health in a high population rate.
Moreover and due to isolation of this mountain area of normal distribution channels, the greatest problem is the low fish intake, so they scarcely eats iodine which implies goiter onset in most of girls and teenagers. Goiter is a swelling of the neck or larynx resulting from enlargement of the thyroid gland, it can originates a difficulty in breathing or swallowing and also cough, hoarseness and development problems on childhood population.
Girls from earlier ages carry wood bales reaching almost 40 kg. on rough terrains, which put her physical health at risk and involves back problems lasting their entire life.
Women care along pregnancy and birth attendance also require specific attention. A pregnant woman can not stop making physical efforts on her daily tasks and they do not get any assistance during her pregnancy or they gave birth, leading to high abortion rates.
The health area of Accion Geoda will continue to work in order to palliate, as much as possible, the health problems of the population. Our work aims to provide stable medical care in the area, based in Ifoulou, that could served all the surrounding villages.
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