POLICE INVADE YAOUNDE CENTRAL HOSPITAL... HEALTH MINISTER BLAMES LAQUANTINIE STAFF, SECURITY

In what is sounding like a shift from his initial position, Cameroon’s Public Health Minister has blamed the Douala Laquantinie staff for the scandal that befell the hospital on March 12 2016.

MAMA FOUDA : WHATS HAPPENING IN YDE?

While maintaining that the victim Monique Koumateke died before reaching the Laquantinie , Andre Mama said that the Doctors at hospital were supposed to make another reading of the situation by taking the woman into the maternity. 

He said the fact that the door of the maternity was closed did not speak well of a public hospital like Laquintinie. 

Andre Mama Fouda admitted on the CRTV programme, ESPACE POLITQUE, Thursday March 24, that there were security lapses on the part of Laquintinie management given that there was no security guard or policemen 

(who have a  Post within hospital premises) to stop the unbelievable ‘gynecological operation’ on Monique Koumateke. He confessed there was some negligence on part of the hospital. “At the mortuary of the hospital, attendants while displacing the corpse thought the fetuses were still alive because of fœtal floating in amniotic fluid.

AFTER LAQUANITINIE DOUALA?

 One of the women who accompanied the corpse took that as an excuse and summoned the courage upon her self to open the corpse imagining she was bringing out life neonates,” the Minister had said in a statement through his Director of Family Health, Professor Mbu Robinson.

When the incident occurred local authorities had refused to admit a failed health care system in wake of repeated complains of negligence. Authorities were blaming the victim’s sister.

P.S.  At the time of filing in this report, security forces are reported to have laid siege at the Yaounde Central Hospital where there are talks of the death of the quadruplets of a certain Nkimih Alfred under unclear circumstances. Details subsequently.

* Additional Reporting from Hanson Nfor , Guest Reporter