Monsignor Felix Victor Tonye Bakot of the Archdiocese of Yaounde has been evacuated to Paris, France, in a special flight, after he sustained multiple fractures in a ghastly car accident along the Douala-Yaounde highway, Thursday, March 27.

Ordered by the President of the Republic of Cameroon, Paul Biya, the Archbishop of Yaounde is currently under close medical surveillance at Raymond Franck Caré Hospital in Paris.Before he left Cameroon, the Director of the Yaounde Central Hospital, Dr. Sida Biwole and a cream of some Cameroonian medical doctors had been closely monitoring the situation.

In a series of press briefings, Dr. Biwole reassured public opinion that the Archbishop was responding to treatment from the emergency service of his hospital, he was talking but an "an evacuation for a more specialised attention and treatment out of Cameroon will be advisable," Dr. Biwole told the press.

While Mgr. Bakot is benefittting from a Presidential Order to get meticulous attention in Paris, his driver and uncle, with whom they were in the car are still at the emergency department of the Yaounde Central Hospital responding to treatment.

Eye-witness reports from the scene of the accident say the Archbishop's car had a head-on collusion with an on-coming car as his driver was over-taking some other cars.Some of the first persons to have visited Archbishop Bakot while on his hospital bed in Yaounde were the Archbishop of Douala Diocese, Cardinal Christian Whiyghan Tumi and the Prime Minister, Ephraim Inoni.