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Hello,

Over the past few years we have been active in empowering our community with regards to communicable diseases.

Doctors Emmanuel Fru Ntsutebu, Mathilde Mbock have delivered speeches across the community in HIV/AIDS and MALARIA.

Dr Ngatchu is active with teaching at the University of Buea. Dr John Ayuk delivered a master class piece in diabetes.

We are a charity and will need your support for us to continue with our missions. In recent years we have contributed to the development of the library at UNIBU.

This mail is a reminder of our AGM and scientific meeting set to take place in London, Enfield, Saturday the 6th of July 2013.

The following leaders are expected to cascade this major event to their various groups: Sam Fongho( Mecuda), Uncle Saks (TMG), Mr. Jay Ngole (Bakossi), Mr. Dohnji (Bali), Dr Tamasang Martin (Ambasbay London), Dr . Egbe Louis Mbua (Fako), Mr. Walla Henri(Buea- UK) , Mr. Peter Ashu (Lycee Molyko), Mr. Julius Nkafu(Business club), Mr. Chrs Nasah (Sacred Heart), Mr. Edems Effiong (Bafaw), Mr. Namange (Baptist boys).

We are expecting leaders of the Bassa, Bamilike, Ewondo, Bulu, Douala, etc to do the same.

All the Sobans and Sakerettes are expected in their numbers.

We look forward to receiving the ladies from Okoyong, Lourdes etc.

The Prince of Bessong Abang Mr Tabi Ebai , The SW elites Mr Alfred Abanda , Chief Ewouma, Prof. Rose Mary Burnley, Grace Elone, Mr Ralph Nganje, please reserve the date.

We look forward to seeing les femmes dynamiques, femmes modernes, Cameroon forum(Mr. Ralph Tanyi) not forgetting the Manyu women with Anti Patience Abangma.

Doctors cant do without nurses.

With the extraordinary participation of Cameroon nurses, UK.

Doctors, UK

Annual scientific session and Soiree London

Saturday, 6th of July 2013.

With thanks,

Fred Ngale Kemah.

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Bamenda, Cameroon, Africa. (Cameroon News)   –  The governor of the Northwest Region has assured dental surgeons that the government of Cameroon will always support them in their fight against some clandestine practices in their profession.

Governor Lele Lafrique Adolphe was speaking in Bamenda today while chairing the opening ceremony of the general assembly of the Cameroon Order of Dental Surgeons in Bamenda.

According to the National Order of Dental Surgeons there is one dental surgeon in Cameroon for 105,000 people, far from the World Health Organization standard of one dental surgeon for 10,000 people.

Many of them are found in the big cities making it difficult for many citizens especially the rural masses to know about their profession.

Also, some members of the Order of Dental Surgeons are not well versed with the internal regulation and other text regulating the practice of their professions.

It is as a result of these and other reasons that their profession has been invaded by charlatans with many professionals, even though belonging to the order, operating clandestinely.

The focus of this general assembly is to redress the situation hence the theme Ignorance of the Law is no Excuse.

While imploring the government to support them in their fight against disuse, the President of the Council of the National Order of Dental Surgeons Dr. Effila Ebe Catherine mentioned the construction of their headquarters in Yaoundé and the closure of some clandestine dental clinics in Douala are some of their achievement within just one year in office.

Northwest Governor Lele Lafrique Adolphe assured the dental surgeons of government’s continued support in their fight to rid their profession of charlatans and clandestine doctors.

Created in 1984, the Cameroon National Order of Dental Surgeons now has a membership of over 178 doctors.

The Bamenda general assembly meeting is expected to end next Saturday, October 28 with far-reaching resolutions geared towards resolving the problems faced by the order.

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Yaounde, Cameroon, Africa. (Cameroon News)  -The Minister of Public Health has called on newly appointed officials of the Chantal Biya International Research Center on HIV AIDS to take up the major challenge of fostering research on the treatment of HIV AIDS. André Mama Fouda was speaking today in Yaoundé while commissioning the officials into their functions.

Mr. Jean Stéphane Biatcha the President of the Organizing Committee of the Chantal Biya International Center for Research on HIV AIDS, Director of the institution and the Deputy Director are all expected to work closely together and ensure that the Chantal Biya International Center lives up to expectations.

A three-man team has just taken over the management of the Chantal Biya International Reference Center for Research on HIV and AIDS. The President of the organizing committee of the CIRCB Mr. Jean Stéphane Biatcha, the Director and this deputy [indiscernible 15:48] were installed today in Yaoundé by the Minister of Public Health Andre Mama Fouda. The Minister called on the officials to ensure that the institution lives up to its ambition of finding a treatment for HIV and AIDS.

Efforts and results attained so far from the research on the prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS at the Chantal Biya International Research Center on HIV and AIDS.

The creation of the Chantal Biya International Reference Center for Research on HIV and AIDS on February 23, 2006 came with a promise that of developing a vaccine for the treatment of HIV and AIDS which today looks promising. The researchers of the center are now working on a vaccine developed in New York some 15 years ago. Their objective, ensuring its efficacy and safety as explained here by the newly-installed Deputy Director of the Chantal Biya International Reference Center for Research on HIV and AIDS.

They tested the vaccine at the first level. It was not dangerous to the people. It gives some promising result. And then phase two is to extend the number of people you have to administer the vaccine and get more tangible result.

Still funding remains a big challenge which means making a breakthrough may not necessarily be anytime soon although the researchers are now working in that direction. In the meantime the center better known by its French acronym as CIRCB has remained dedicated to improving the quality of care and services offered to persons living with as well as to those affected by HIV and AIDS.

One of the things we do is biological monitoring. We have to do the people CD4 to guide clinicians on how to administer their medication, another one is the conduct of viral load and then the third one is resistance to anti-retroviral. So occasionally patients develop resistance to the treatment they are taking and we have in our center the ability to conduct research and find out alternative medications for the patients.

With a new director and deputy director plus a president of the organizing committee there are hopes like Minister Andre Mama Fouda said that the CIRCB will grow at the national and international levels.

Public Health Minister André Mama Fouda would be on a working visit to Douala in the Littoral region tomorrow during which he will assess progress at the ongoing free campaign for the treatment of eye infections. The campaign is being carried out by the blindness control program in partnership with the Tunisian medical NGO Nadi Al Basar at the Laquintine Hospital in Douala.

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A medical team from the Tunisian non-governmental organization known as Nadi AlBassar will be carrying out a free cataract surgery campaign in the country.

According to a press release signed by the Minister of Public Health Andre Mama Fouda, the campaign will take place at the Douala Laquintinie Hospital and will run from October 15th to 19th.
The campaign is being funded by the Islamic Development Bank.

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Yaounde, Cameroon, Africa. (Cameroon News) – The Global Hand Washing Day will be celebrated – will be commemorated next Monday, the 15th of October. Prior to the event the Minister of Basic Education Youssouf Hadidja Alim will launch activities to raise awareness on the importance of basic hygiene in nursery and primary schools this afternoon.

Many diseases are contracted through dirty hand and children are mostly targeted as they often play with filthy objects.

Water is life. This maxim is not only true because we use water in drinking or cooking but also because we use water to wash our hands.

Dirty hands are vectors of diseases like cholera, dysentery and parasite infections.

Children know it and they usually wash their hands.

When we are finished to wipe the board we wash our hands.

I wash my hands when I eat when I’m coming back from the toilet I wash my hand with soap in the bucket.

I wash my hands when I finished to play or when I come out from the toilet with soap and water.

At the Central English Primary School Group I Class IV teacher gives advice to her pupils about washing hands.

When students come to school mostly after wiping the board their hands are dirty with chalk so they wash their hands to avoid germs and to prevent dirtying their books, after we throw the water. We always keep a bucket of water in the class so that the children will always wash their hands.

The fifth edition of the Global Hand Washing Day is celebrated on the theme Help Your Children Reach Their Fifth Birthday.

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Yaounde, Cameroon, Africa. (Cameroon News)  -  The document has been designed against the backdrop of disturbing medical statistics which indicate that about 11 million Cameroonians are affected by at least six identified tropical diseases.

According to the Minister of Public Health André Mama Fouda, government and health partners are bent on eradicating the disease in Cameroon by 2016 at the latest.

The Minister of Public Health André Mama Fouda has reaffirmed government’s resolve to combat and possibly eliminate identified neglected tropical diseases in Cameroon.

He was speaking in Yaoundé today while launching activities elaborated in a strategic plan document to fight against tropical neglected diseases.

Medical experts say there are over six identified neglected tropical diseases in Cameroon. Some of them are onchocerciasis, buruli, trichomoniasis and schistosomiasis. Most of them are transmitted through a vector, the fly, to humans.

According to the Minister of Public Health André Mama Fouda many people across the country suffer from these diseases and calls for proper concern and the review of the strategic plan document.

With this new plan we decided to develop and implement synergy actions between the different programs.

The prevalence is not negligible. The president of the Coalition of the Non-Governmental Organizations Ann Tarini:

 Its millions of Cameroonians that are at risk. It’s over 16 million for schistosomiasis and more than 10 million for onchocerciasis and 17 million for lymphatic filariasis and almost 1 million for trichoma. So many people are at risk.

In spite of the weaknesses there is hope with the improved activities.

The weakness is the coordination to an integrated approach more coherent but it’s also linked to the weakness of the health system. So the quality of the activities has to be improved.
The launch of the activities of the strategic plan document is proof of government’s resolve to fight and eliminate the identified neglected tropical diseases in Cameroon between 2012 to 2016.

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A new Imaging center is in place in Bafoussam to meet the needs of Cameroonians in the western province of Cameroon. The Bafoussam Imaging center is said to be Worth 676 million FCFA.

The center is located on the premises of the Bafoussam Regional Hospital and was inaugurated by Cameroon’s Minister of Health.

The Bafoussam regional hospital is over 50 years old and its much awaited imaging center is housed in a new building of the regional hospital.

Details of the equipments of diagnostics and healthcare are unavailable at the moment but a typical imaging center is comprised of multiple X-ray machines, multi-slice (64/128) CT Scanners, Bone mineral Densitometers (BMD), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines, Fluoroscopy and interventional units along with ultrasound, CathLab for Cardiac applications and C-arm units for Operating rooms. Mammography units for the diagnostics of early breast cancer, digital x-ray, mobile x-ray systems for flexibility, CT Scanners for trauma exams, etc.

As with any tools, its acquisition is not the major issues as is its proper use. For patients to truly benefit from the Imaging center, proper attention needs to be given to the proper functioning and updates of the instruments.

Typically, a Medical Physicist, is responsible to overseer the day-to-day running of these instruments and provide annual training to technologist and physicians.

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Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. (Cameroon News) – The Coordination and Follow-up Committee of Priority Projects to be realized in the Bakassi zone is preparing recommendations to submit to government on ways of better carrying out priority development projects and encouraging Cameroonians to live in the area. The committee members evaluated the level of execution of projects from January 30 to February 2, 2012.

“In Subdivisions like Kombo Abedimo, especially in Akwa, Isangele and Kombo Itindi especially in Ngosso, most of the structures are in place. Most of the bad jobs have been done in Idabato Subdivision that was ceded to Cameroon last by Nigeria,” the Committee chairperson who doubles as Special Adviser to the Prime Minister, Lekunze Ketuma Jacob said after the projects execution assessment mission.

The committee delegation inspected projects in the Ngosso in Kombo Itindi Subdivison, especially the newly constructed National Gendarmerie Brigade, deserted plank Police station and also saw the advanced erosion at the beach.

In Barracks, part of the Kombo Itindi Subdivision, they expressed satisfaction with construction of the Government Primary School.

In Idabato Subdivision, the Committee delegation inspected the newly constructed Subdivisional Delegation of Agriculture, the Subdivisional Officer’s residence with a working solar energy system, a well constructed health centre, classrooms in Government Primary School and Government Secondary School Idabato.

Delegation members were disappointed with the abandoned work on the Police building whose constructed ignored all the norms.

The Committee on February 1, 2012 inspected the ongoing work at a water supply project in Akwa, headquarters of Kombo Abedimo Subdivision, Government Technical College Akwa that has magnificent buildings awaiting completion and the Community hall.

They also inspected classrooms constructed in Government School Mbenmong.

In Isangele the same day, the Committee delegation inspected work on a tank being dug as part of the potable water supply project and the foundation of the Isangele Council Complex funded by FEICOM.

From Isangele the Committee delegation drove to Mundemba through the 75 km long Mundemba-Isangele-Akwa road opened up by the Military Engineering Corps in 2010.

The road is suffering from serious degradation, though reports say government budgeted FCFA 200 million in 2011 for its maintenance.

A military base of Cameroon's Rapid Intervention Unit - Cameroon's Reaction Force on the Idabato, Bakassi peninsula, Cameroon.

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Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. (Cameroon News) – The Korean government through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), is financing the ongoing construction of the Medical Surgical-Emergency Centre in Yaounde, Cameroon.

The project expected to finish by January 2013, will cost over FCFA 2.2 billion. The Korean government has contributed FCFA 1.6 billion, while the Cameroon government has contributed FCFA 600 million.

“This project includes not only hardware support of the facility but also software support such as on-site training, dispatching of Korean experts and so on.” Cho June-Hyuck, Korea’s Ambassador to Cameroon said in Yaounde on Wednesday, January 18, 2012.

Cameroon’s Prime Minister, Head of Government, Philemon Yang officially launched the construction of the centre on January 18.

“The National Medico-surgical Emergency Centre in Yaounde breaks ground with goals of improving access and the quality of emergency care service for Cameroonians. It will support Cameroon government’s endeavour to strengthen public health care system with qualified facilities and advanced expertise.” Ambassador Cho June-Hyuck said.

Stating that “truly, I can say this is a year of Korea and Cameroon”, Ambassador Cho June –Hyuck said his government was supporting Cameroon’s agricultural revolution with a rice project which has already started.

“The delivery ceremony of agricultural machinery will take place in the coming week”, he said. He also announced ground breaking ceremonies in the days ahead, for the three Advanced Vocational Training Centres in Limbe, Douala and Sangmelima.

Public Health Minister, André Mama Fouda described the Yaounde Medico-Emergency Centre as the pursuance of government’s ambitious programme to endow the country with modern health infrastructure.

The two-storey building to cover a surface area of 2202.37 metres square is linked to the Yaounde Central Hospital.

It has the capacity of 37 beds to handle cases of trauma and serious burns and can be extended to 50 beds in case of disasters, Mama Fouda explained.

Statistics from the Ministry of Public Health reveal 8,057 victims of corporal accidents in Cameroon in 2010, stating that 1,897 of the victims died.

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