Article of the 30/08/2005 Brescia Journal

Hope bresciana against her "his/her children's leprosy"
The medical rotariano Charles Anthony Galoforo fights with him oxygen-ozonoterapia the illness that torments the small ones of Africa

There is a hope - and this hope speaks bresciano - in the war to the ulcer of Buruli, emergent illness of the tropical regions that makes rhyme with fester, abscissions, disablement.
They call her "his/her children's leprosy", favorite injured parties of the "Mycobacterium ulcerans", of the same family of the leprosy and the tubercolosis, that day after day devours hands, braccia, legs of who stricken of it is. In certain Countries to tall rate of dampening, the ideal habitat for the diffusion of the disease as the ivory Coast where over 20mila are the censussed cases, it constitutes a problem of public health.
"A scourge which till now the antibiotic were revealed even effective - Charles Anthony Galoforo explains, urologo in the City of Brescia that also deals him with oxygen-ozone therapy, rotariano of the club Brescia Est -. The routine therefore it was to surgically remove the infected parties."
Then three years ago, a happy intuition from the physician bresciano that has proposed to treat the ulcer of Buruli with intensive applications of ozone - you already experiment in Europe in the care of the fester -, combined to that that is said "to be to the correct moment with the correct person" (but "Nothing happens by chance", Galofaro beats).
Context: a joinder with the friends rotariani of Abbiategrasso, whose Chairman, Claudio Paparo, is promoting of the project "Ulcer of Buruli." A project what time it counts note on a scientific manager bresciano. Paparo, from his/her song, for a long time it was in contact with father Marcantonio Pirovano, manager of a lebbrosario to Zouan Hounien, ivory Coast, from which more times had departed a roll call because the west exported cares.
"That day nevertheless we were met only there for picking up trusts" Galoforo says. Well, shortly after on board of the airplane with the picked trusts a delegation departed of voluntary rotariani, among which the bresciano and an equipment for the ozonoterapia to be experimented to the center "Raoul Follerau" of Adzope. In the meantime, in fact, in the North of the ivory Coast, because of the civil war, the hospital of Zouan Hounien had been made to evacuate and then bombed.
The results of the therapy, are noticed as for amazing. "The ozone is a powerful disinfectant and has effects vascolarizzanti. In short it is conclusive in to shorten the times of recovery. The all to sufferings and costs easily reduced (the machinery doesn't overcome the 15mila European and is transportable) with a reproducible therapeutic protocol: all it takes is spooling in a plastic pouch the Area to treat and insufflarvi the ozone for about twenty minutes. Almost daily. In one day one hundred children are medicated."
This way, already during that forwarding, Galoforo had provided to teach to the physicians of the place as to practise the care. "A road that we will keep on crossing - it says - even if since then for the political situation you/he/she has been difficult to return down there."
Meanwhile, the good news has started to spread and the letters of request are also made wide from other Countries in which the Mycobacterium reaps injured parties.
A second machinery, has departed for example with the Association Medicus Mundi. And thanks to the rotarianis, after the summer from there a bystander will depart for Benin. Not only. There is an engagement with the minister ivoriano of the Health, Mabri Toikeusse, and then a new project rotariano that foresees the gift of forms prefabricated by to turn to tent for for the ozonoterapia. Dedication: the 180 patients lodged to Abidjan, dispersed from the hospital of Zouan-Hounien.
In the meantime to Galoforo the placet also arrives from the Oms, that you/he/she has invited him/it to Geneva for the world Day against the ulcer of Buruli in last March. Motive: to report to the colleagues of 30 Countries how much you/he/she has discovered. Is it in notebook? "Other trips Africans, not necessarily in ivory Coast if the war won't allow him/it, to divulge the "know how" of the ozone and to install machineries."

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