Yelboundi Möré
A life devoted to medicine
A victim of his dedication to his patients, Professor Hilaire Tiendrébéogo died in 1999 of a rare radio-resistant cancer of the ocular region. As a specialist in lung diseases, Hilaire Tiendrébéogo had to make extensive use of dangerous lung radioscopy in the early days of his practice, and this chronic irradiation was certainly the cause of his premature death. A detailed account of his life is provided in French.
Second son (but eldest in the family, his older brother having died in infancy) of Prosper Kyend(r)ébéogho and Juliette Zongo (still alive in October 2021, i.e. more than 103 years old...), Hilaire Tiendrébéogo was born in Laye, a village of twelve districts northwest of Ouagadougou, in what was then called Haute Volta (now Burkina Faso), into a family of eight children. As his name shows, the spelling of the Möré language was not yet well established at the time of his birth. His father is a Waõngo from the sacred village of Bilogo, east of Lay. His mother is from a Nyönyösé family who lived in the sacred district of Laye.
The complete list of his work in the field of non-tuberculous respiratory infections would certainly have deserved to be more detailed: parasitosis (amoebiasis, distomiasis, pentasomiasis, hydatid cyst, bilharzia); mycosis (aspergillosis, candidiasis, unidentified mycosis). He has also worked on lung cancer and one of its worst causes in Africa, smoking...
M Corap, H Tiendrébéogo
Histoires de tuberculoses
Colour movie (40 min,
éducation sanitaire)
Comité Antituberculeux, (1973) Ouagadougou, Haute-Volta
Initiation to the
dangers of blood: On 23 november 1982 Hilaire Tiendrébéogo,
then director of the Études de l'École Supérieure des Sciences de la
Santé in Ouagadougou, invited me to give a lecture on tuesday 4th
january 1983.
I proposed the idea of teaching the first elements of the achievements
of genetic engineering, to discuss the question
of nature and artifice, and on this occasion to warn
against practices involving blood (which would easily transmit
pathogens), especially because of a disease, recently affecting
homosexuals in the United States, an acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome, probably caused by a pathogen. It was the infamous AIDS...
And we had long discussions about the role of needles and the problems
of sterilisation: it was much better to get sterilisable needles than
to distribute disposable needles, which were obviously reused
(although they could not be sterilised)! This is how the second level
of initiation is prepared: emerging
diseases.
1954-1959 High School at the Petit Séminaire de Pabré
1959-1962 High School at the Collège de la Salle (Ougadougou)
1962 Baccalauréat à Ouagadougou, Haute-Volta (organisé par l'Académie
de Bordeaux)
1962-1968 Medical College Studies at the Faculté de Médecine de Nancy
novembre 1968-1969 End of Medicine cursus, and exams in clinic at the
Faculté de Médecine d'Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
26 avril 1973 MD Thesis, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
septembre 1973 Certificat d'Etudes Spéciales de Pneumophtisiologie,
Paris
Février 1974 Chef de clinique en Pneumophtisiologie, Faculté de
Médecine d'Abidjan
Juin 1977 Certificat d'Etudes spéciales de Médecine Aéronautique,
Paris V
1980 Maître de conférence agrégé de Pneumophtisiologie – France
1981-1986 Directeur des études de l’Ecole Supérieure des Sciences
de la Santé (E.S.S.SA)/Université de Ouagadougou
1984 Maladies Sexuellement Transmissibles
1985 Méthodologie de la Recherche
1986-1988 Epidémiologie tropicale
Hospital education and responsabilities (titles in french, as there is no exact equivalent in different university systems)
1965-1968 Externe des hôpitaux de Nancy
1969-1973 Interne du CHU d'Abidjan (major de sa promotion)
1973-1974 Assistant en Pneumophtisiologie (Abidjan, Pr P Delormas)
1974-1978 Assistant en Pneumophtisiologie (Abidjan, Dr D Schmidt et Pr
N Coulibaly)
1977 Assistant à titre étranger au CHUR de Grenoble (Pr P Delormas, et
Pr B Paramelle)
1978-1989 Médecin chef du Centre National de Coordination de
la Lutte Antituberculeuse de Haute-Volta, et Médecin-adjoint en
Phtisiologie de l'Hôpital Yalgado Ouédraogo de Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso.
1982-1984 Médecin chef du service des Maladies infectieuses de
l’Hopital Yalgado Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
1987-1989 Médecin des services médicaux de l’hôpital Yalgado
Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso
1989-1992 Directeur Général adjoint de l’OCCGE (Organisation de
Coordination et de Coopération pour la Lutte contre les Grandes
Endémies), chargé de la programmation scientifique
1992-1996 Directeur provisoire, puis directeur du Projet EPIGEPS
(Epidémiologies et Gestion des Programmes de santé) / OCCGE,
Bobo-Dioulasso/Burkina Faso
1996-1999 Directeur de l’Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la
Santé / Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques et Technologiques,
Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso
Other activities and experiences
Services and health systems
1984-1986 : Structuration of the medical services of the
Centre Hospitalier National Yalgado Ouédraogo
1984 : Infectious diseases : participation to the
management of measles, meningitis and cholera in Burkina Faso
1973-1978 : Expert at the Conseil National de Santé de Côte d’Ivoire
1970-1978 : Member of the antituberculosis comittee in
Ivory Coast
vision of fight against cholera in the sous-préfecture of Grand-Lahou
(RCI) during the first large open epidemic in West Africa.
University
Regional et international activities
Detached at the OCCGE in Bobo-Dioulasso from 15/02/89 to 30/06/96 :