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Cameroon: Health Minister Solicits Community to Donate Blood
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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
20 March 2008
Posted to the web 20 March 2008
Effa Tambenkongho
The Minister was on a working Visit to the Littoral Province from March 13 to 15.
The Minister of Public Health, André Mama Fouda, has solicited the Douala community to rescue the blood bank of the Laquintinie hospital which is practically empty and donate blood. He was speaking during a working visit, to evaluate the capacity of hospitals to intervene and handle emergency situations in the Littoral Province.
Minister Mama Fouda visiting the Laquintinie hospital, Douala he was scandalised to realise that the blood bank was empty. He said that the situation is an emergency. He called on the media present to inform the community at large to save the situation of the hospital. Being one of the largest hospitals in Douala and which handled about 42 victims during the four day strike which was so fierce in Douala, the blood in the bank was used on victims who suffered some serious casualties.
From March 13 when the minister started his visit to hospitals which handled emergency cases during the strike, his message which ran across all the hospitals was to boost the capacity of hospitals in handling emergency cases such as road accidents and epidemics, etc and to better organise, encourage and empower them.
In the provincial Hospital of Nkongsamba which is said to be a pivot of health in that area, Mama Fouda encouraged the staff for the efforts and appreciated the expertise of some Egyptians who are presently giving a helping hand in the hospital and the Germans for renovating the hospital. He sought to answer a few needs like making sure the School of Nursing in Nkongsamba goes operational by September 2008. He also asked the authorities to forward the lists of their contract staff so that they could be recruited officially. He made a visit to the various services of the hospital and handed cartoons of consignment of drugs, an ambulance and a few other needs.
Mama Fouda made a stop over at the St. Jean de Malte hospital in Njombe. It is strategically located in an accident prone zone. The Minister saluted the Order of Malte to Cameroon which relationship the Cameroon has benefited a lot in the fight against HIV/AIDS, fight against Cancer in children, etc. The Minister lauded the efforts of the hospital in their handling of emergencies, especially the October, 2007 accident along the Njombe- Penja high way which claimed 28 lives, and other epidemic cases like cholera outbreak. The Minister's visit tied with the events of the Surgical Day. He underscored the need for an emergency fund to be created to handle emergency cases, just as the Director of the hospital Colonel Hans Gilbert, requested in his speech from government. He gave some gifts to the hospital as a token of appreciation. He visited the various services and the victims of the strike who were still undergoing treatment.
Mama Fouda visited the Mbanga District Hospital where he gave an ambulance, consignment of drugs and promised recruitment of staff in the days ahead. .
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He terminated his visit in Douala with the visit to the protestant hospital in Bonaberi, CEBEC, and Bonassama district hospital.
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