ABSTRACT
The Muruku Clinic of Mary Immaculate is the oldest project of Slovak Doctors in Africa founded in 1999 by Sr. Mary Killeen and Prof. L. Soltes, working on an active survey of HIV especially in pregnant women, as well as OPD for basic diseases for two neighboring slums - Mukuru and St. Catherine. The aim of this research note is to describe the change of the spectrum of diseases just after Covid-19 pandemics in Kenya after first wave in 2020 just 20 years after founding of the clinic. When before 2000, malaria HIV, TB and STDs were the commonest diseases followed by multiple parasitic related anemia, after active screening and education against HIV the situation changed.
ABSTRACT
During the first and second wave of Covid-19 pandemics, Balkan countries were among the least affected areas of Europe, especially those having islands as naturally protected quarantine environment (Greece, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta), as well as countries with less tourism in Spring such as Montenegro, Albania, and Bulgaria. Therefore, the health care system was not overwhelmed by Covid-19 infected patients and was able to continue on normal outpatient and inpatient bases. This pilot population-based study in rural Albania shows only a low and temporary break of health and social services for just 1 month during the first wave, in April 2020.