Ouagadougou: The Department of Defense brought together experts and technicians from several areas of expertise to make proposals with a view to improving the care of combatants injured in operations, as efficiently as possible.
The meeting which ends tomorrow Wednesday in Ouagadougou, brought together health professionals, researchers, political-administrative decision-makers, resource people and wounded soldiers, with a view to finding proposals for holistic care, including integration, cases of soldiers injured in operations.
‘These exchanges, which are of capital importance, must examine the holistic care of the injured and result in concrete proposals, in order to efficiently resolve the difficulties that will be identified in the medium, short and long term,’ explains the General Staff. general of the Burkinabe armed forces.
‘The wounded in operations, these heroes who sacrificed themselves on the battlefield deserve all our attention,’ declared the Minister of State, Minister of Defense and Veterans
Affairs, Brigadier General Kassoum Coulibaly, at the ceremony. opening of the conference devoted to the issue.
Since 2016, Burkina Faso has been engaged in the fight against terrorist attacks which indiscriminately target civilian populations as well as defense and security forces.
Numerous initiatives from the government and associations have provided concrete responses to the care of injured soldiers or their families. This meeting will make it possible to take into account several other aspects of this care and integration of disabled people.
Source: Burkina Information Agency