[COVID management at the Regional Hospital of Lambaréné (Gabon) from March 2020 to February 2021].

The authors report on their experience of managing COVID-19 at the Regional hospital of Lambaréné, capital of the Moyen-Ogooué province in central Gabon.The infectious diseases department was the referral and follow-up site for COVID-19, with an intervention team to follow up outpatients. The department followed national recommendations for overall management with mild cases receiving vitamin therapy, moderate cases hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, severe cases azithromycin, another antibiotic and oxygen.

[Caustic stenosis of the esophagus in Libreville. Results of the surgical treatment].

41 cases of caustic stenosis of the oesophagus were treated surgically by the thoracic and visceral surgical teams of La Fodation Jeanne Ebori and L'Hopital Pédiatrique d'Owendo in Libreville. The lesions were due to bleach ingestion in 38 cases, caustic soda in 2 cases and sulfuric acid in 1 case. Ingestion was an accident in 29 cases and voluntary in 12.