Study of Malaria in Patients Operated on at the Reference Health Center of Commune I Bamako

Abstract

Malaria is a febrile and hemolyzing erythrocytopathy due to the development and multiplication of one or more of the five plasmodial species dependent on humans: Plasmodium falciparum , P . malariae , P . ovale , P . vivax and P . knowlesi . These parasites are inoculated into humans by the infective bite of a female mosquito, female anopheles of the genus Anopheles, during a blood meal. The study aimed to: determine the frequency of fever due to malaria after surgery; describe malaria symptomatology and clinical evolution after surgical intervention; determine the average length of hospital stay for operated patients with malaria; evaluate the average cost of malaria treatment. This was a prospective study which involved 110 operated patients, which took place over a period of 12 months from March 2017 to February 2018 in the general surgery department at the Reference Health Center of commune I of the Bamako district. The frequency of malaria was 11.82% before the intervention and 3.64% after the intervention, with an average age of 29.80 years; extremes of 2 years and 76 years and a sex ratio of 1.5 in favor of the male sex. The main clinical signs were fever (38.18%), headache (20.91%) and vomiting (36.36%) and physical asthenia (18.18%). Diagnosed and treated early, malaria progressed favorably. The outcome was simple for all our patients and we did not record any deaths. The cost of treatment was borne by the patients and/or their families. The average cost of treatment was 7915 CFA francs, significantly below the Malian minimum wage which is around 30,000 FCFA. The implementation of preventive measures is necessary to reduce the importance of malaria in hospitals: staff awareness, indoor spraying, use of impregnated mosquito nets.