Cameroon health officials meet amid scandals

Members of the board of Cameroon institutions charged with training nurses, midwives and health technicians began their 20th session meeting on the 30th of March 2016 at the Yaoundé Conference Centre. 

Public Health Minister Andre Mama Fouda was conspicuously absent. Opening the conclave, the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Public Health in charge of Epidemics and Pandemics, Alim Hayatou stressed on the need for quality training that can offer improved healthcare in hospitals.

In a typical CPDM pattern, the Secretary of State avoided the numerous public health failures in the country and instead frowned at the reception in hospitals which to him is yet to be up to standards. The three-day meeting is expected to lay emphasis on ethics during training in health schools.