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Some medical practitioners from Italy and Cameroon have concluded a one day forum at the Shisong Cardiac Centre in Bui Division of the North West Region which was aimed at sharpening their skills on Heart Surgery. Sr. Jethro Nkenglefac, General Manager of the Center as reported by the Post Newspaper said the scientific conference was organized to inform the public and the international community on what was going on at the Cardiac Centre and a way to add value to what the cardiologists were doing.

She added that they were satisfied with the service rendered the public for six years to buttress a recent presidential decree granting the centre “the status of a public utility. Prof. Sylvia Cirri, one of the founding partners in a key note speech said the Centre has come a long way noting that the training of cardiologist with partners from Europe and the construction of the Centre now ensures the positive output recorded so far.

Despite the successes recorded, Sylvia Cirri observed that there are challenges paramount among them was the very deplorable nature of the road network and called on government to do something in this direction. During the conference that held on November 13, participants were drilled on, timing and surgical techniques of fallout repairs, lessons learnt from five years of Catheterization, chronic pulmonary regurgitation, challenges of blood bank and transfusion services, outreach screening of patients with Cardiovascular disease, Heart failure, challenges in the Banso Baptist Hospital [BBH], hypertension in HIV patients alongside a host of other health related issues.

The medical practitioners drawn from the BBH, Medical practitioners of the Shisong Cardiac Centre as well as students of the Shisong Catholic Nursing School and the District Medical officer from Kumbo East Health District met under the theme “where are we after six years” Speakers during the conference included Dr. Landry Leuteu, the District Medical officer and Sr. Mary Aldrine Kinyuy, Matron of St. Elisabeth Cardiac Centre who encouraged participants to ensure that the Cardiac Centre forges ahead.

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19.Nov.2015

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The drugs, suspected to be of doubtful quality, were seized in the New-Bell neighbourhood of Douala near Sacred Heart College. Suleman Abdoul-Karim, who was transporting the pharmaceutical products in a Toyota truck with registration number CE 366 CX, said they belonged to a certain Ballo Mohamadou. The drugs were taken to the Littoral Regional Delegation of Public Health for examination and subsequent destruction.

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18.Nov.2015

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Davis and Daryl the conjoint twins that were successfully operated in a hospital in Tunisia have travelled back to Cameroon. They were recently received at the Chantal Biya Foundation in Yaounde where the kids stayed for several months prior to their evacuation in Tunisia.

The Wimbum community, and well-wishers present in the homecoming ceremony all expressed gratitude to the First Lady Chantal Biya whose personally generosity, contributed to the evacuation of the children. Davis and Daryl were born on 27th August 2015 in the Banso Baptist Hospital in the North West Region had one thorax.

Through the generosity of the First Lady Chantal Biya, they were evacuated to Tunisia on 8th September 2015. They are the second among the three cases of conjoint twins born in the North west Region. The first were Sheavvaboh and Sheamboh from Babanki who were separated in Saudi Arabia.

The third case of conjoint twins is presently undergoing some medical examination at the Chantal Biya Foundation pending operation. They were born at the Bambalang District Hospital in Ndop on 13th August, 2015.

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17.Nov.2015

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Sanitation is necessary for healthy living. However, public toilets, which are supposed to ease things for pressed-up people, are virtually absent in major towns and public offices in the South West Region. Public joints like markets, drinking spots and even public offices, are clear instances of the neglect of public hygiene. These spots lack good toilets where the people can relieve themselves. Even where toilets exist, they are left in very bad shape and instead serve as breeding grounds for diseases that are easily transmitted to users.

Most of the toilets, especially in public offices, are broken down, with no water to flush after use. Worst still, some people still make use of such toilets, knowing that there is no water to flush; thereby leaving behind foul smell which visitors or workers in nearby offices are obliged to continuously endure. With time, overused stagnant water in toilet dishes, combined with unflushed human waste, develops greenish colour, increasing the intensity of stench. Even where public toilets are still functional, little or no disinfection is done, thereby leaving users at the mercy of disease infection.

From the look of things, users of such toilets, especially women, can easily contract transmissible diseases like vaginal itches, Chlamydia, and Syphilis. Njie Kenneth, a civil servant observed that: “I have been to many public offices and to be sincere, I don’t think I liked what I saw. For example, the toilet in a very popular Buea office is so terrible that one cannot even enter it because of the stench it produces. Office toilets are supposed to be given proper care because they receive many people. Officials should consider employing mobile toilets like in other parts of the country. These toilets tend to be better maintained,” concluded Njie.

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17.Nov.2015

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The great Prof. Victor Anomah Ngu died on June the 14th, 2011 after having developed a vaccine against HIV / AIDS. Four years after his death, and despite the controversies generated by the invention, the Victor Ngu Anomah hiv vaccine (VANHIVAX), continues to be experienced.

A disciple of the late medical brain, Henry Bissong is ensuring that the Prof. Victor Anomah Ngu legacy reigns forever. Henry Bissong who worked with Anoma Ngu for over twelve years said recently that “the vaccine is very effective and we continue to treat HIV patients, transforming their stages of HIV from positive to negative. We continue to explain that there may be a therapeutic vaccine”

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14.Nov.2015

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An experimental vaccine test for Ebola in Cameroon will be injected to 400 people of whom 200 will be from Bamenda and another 200 in Yaounde. According to the Minister of Public Health Mama Andre Fouda, Cameroon was selected alongside Nigeria, Senegal and Ghana because of its strategic location in the sub region. He further explained that the vaccine does not contain any virus which can lead to infection noting that the concern persons will be injected with the Ebola virus which however has no guarantee they will be prevented from being infected. The Minister made the declaration October 30 in Yaoundé.

A civil society activist, Betrand Mvogo has condemned the move which is expected to run from October 2015 to October 2016. In a petition to the Head of State, he regretted that Cameroonians are not Guinea pigs and for the State to accept such a thing was putting citizens at a high risk considering that the disease claimed more than 11.000 lives in some six West African countries. Mr. Mvogo further in his open letter to President Biya urged him to seek medical advice from renowned medical practitioners in the country saying if the vaccine trial fails it will fall back negatively on Cameroonians.

Reacting to these worries, Mama Fouda explained that the virus which will be imported into the country had earlier been experimented in Britain, America and Switzerland with positive results and that the dangers of the trail being a failure in the country was a far fetched dream. The experiment to be carried out by the Centre Pasteur in Yaounde and the Regional Hospital in Bamenda will have the blessings from the National Health Institute of America, GSK firm and Glaxo Smith Kline will need 3000 volunteers.

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11.Nov.2015

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