In Guinea, one out of five adults suffers from sickle-cell anaemia, against a proportion of 1 out 25 among children, this was revealed in a recent study that was carried out on a sample of 1,610 people who were chosen from across the country.The study revealed that the disease is widely spread in Guinea with a rate of 4 percent among children in Donka University Hospital Center (CHU) alone. Having worked for almost 20 years on complicated sickle-cell cases in Guinea, Pathe Diallo who works in the paedriatic section at CHU Donka, said that this is the first hereditary disease that affects Guinean children.

"One case of sickle-cell require about 20,000 euros for proper treatment and this is very expensive for most poor parents who might not have this money if their child falls sick,” he said.