The activities organized by the Cameroonian heart company with the support of the new electricity company, Eneo and Bolloré Africa logistics were part of the 2nd edition of the days of the heart.
According to the Cameroonian Cardiology company (CSC), 12% of adolescents are overweight and 20-25% of children in our cities purchase and frequently consume tobacco. According officials of this organization, youth are particularly affected by congenital heart disease, rheumatic fever (Raa) (a complication at the level of the heart of a poorly treated throat angina) and its complications at the level of the heart, and also fast development and very early bad habits that will make them sick at adulthood.
Recent publications from the CSC, shows that hypertension affects one adult out of three in Cameroon and a hypertensive on 4 has less than 35 years, which explains the steadily increasing number of stroke.
These are findings that have led the Cameroonian company cardiology to devote the second edition of the day of the heart to young people. With theme "I'm young, I do not joke with my heart", it was to integrate young people as well as their family and school environment the fact that the weight of cardiovascular disease multiplies exponentially as soon as complications are established.
"The only effective weapon is prevention," notes the CSC physicians who took the example of angina to better illustrate this important prevention role. "If angina is well neat, it costs not more than 5000 CFA FRANCS." However if no adequate treatment has been received, once the heart valve is already destroyed by the CEOs, the cost of surgery to open the heart is from 5 to 7 500 000 FCFA. This clearly means that once the disease is established, to treat a sick child, the company must pay for this child only the price it might pay to prevent the disease in more than 200 children," explain the leaders of this organisation.
The campaign supported by ENEO, the new electricity company and Bolloré Africa logistics touched more than 10,000 young people and more than 200 coaches in schools in the cities of Yaoundé, Douala, Garoua and Nkongsamba in which it advised them on the regular practice of physical activities in the open air and the consumption of tobacco and alcohol.
