YCH DIRECTOR : SPEAKING THE TRUTH? |
The Director of the Yaounde Central Hospital
has denied claims that the death of Mrs Nkimih’s quintuplets was as a result of the
lack of incubators in the institution.
“The maternity of the hospital owns incubators that enables us to keep the children safe, before any transfer (of the
baby) to the pediatric ward,” Professor Pierre Joseph Fouda said.
In a statement on the death of the Mrs Nkimih’s
quintuplets issued on March 26, he claimed that the hospital could do nothing about the
complicated pregnancy or save the fetuses.
DISCHARGE RECEIPT: DR FOUEDJIO |
He was silent on allegations that the victim’s
sister moved from the Central Hospital, the Chantal Biya Foundation,
the Yaounde Teaching Hospital, CUSS, to the Bethesda Full Gospel Hospital
in the Bastos area, and could not find any available incubator(s).
Professor
Pierre Joseph Fouda seriously contradicts the Medical Doctor, Florent Fouedjio who
examined Mrs Nkimih.
The
weight of the different fetuses in the hospital discharge receipt signed by the Dr Florent Fouedjio, when Mrs Nkimih left hospital, and the one signed by Professor Pierre Joseph
Fouda do not at all march.
The tables A and B better exemplifies.
The tables A and B better exemplifies.
TABLE A: DR FLORENT
FOUEDJIO
Baby
No
|
Sex
|
Weight
|
Observation
|
1
|
Female
|
570 g
|
Alive at birth
|
2
|
Male
|
600g
|
Alive at birth
|
3
|
Male
|
600 g
|
Alive at birth
|
4
|
Male
|
700 g
|
Alive at birth
|
5
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Still birth (Died)
|
TABLE
B: PROF PIERRE JOSEPH FOUDA
Baby
No
|
Sex
|
Weight
|
Observation
|
1
|
Not identified
|
200 g
|
(mummified) Dead
|
2
|
Not identified
|
700g
|
Still Birth (Dead)
|
3
|
Not identified
|
550 g
|
Died Five Minutes after
|
4
|
Not identified
|
570 g
|
Died Five Minutes after
|
5
|
Not identified
|
650g
|
Died Five Minutes after
|
The differences in the declarations from the two medical officials of the same hospital are clear.
PROF FOUDA'S STATEMENT : PAGE 1 |
PROF FOUDA'S STATEMENT: PAGE 2 |
Again, in a declaration on national television on March 26, the Director of the Yaounde Central Hospital said “one of the babies was dead but vibrating.”
CHANTAL BIYA (R) IS HER FOUNDATION TO BLAME |
What seems to be of concern is also the fact
that the Hospital management in the statement said they took care of the victim
though Mrs Nkimih complained of abandonment.
Her husband also made futile
attempts at meeting hospital hierarchy with Social Affairs services just like the hospital
management telling him that they saved Mrs Nkimih's life.
As if regretting the Director of the hospital in the statement promised to improve its services.
CHANTAL
BIYA FOUNDATION TO BLAME?
In the wake of criticisms about the collapsing
health system in Cameroon and in the case of the Yaounde Central Hospital, some
fingers were pointing at the Chantal Biya Foundation.
DR ROGER ETOA : THAT'S HOW IT SHOULD BE |
In an attempt to explain the current functioning of
the Yaounde Central hospital, an official at the Ngousso District Hospital in Yaounde said
the structure constructed some 80 years ago had its neo-natal ward (for premature babies)
,a pediatric department and a maternity.
In a
statement ,Dr Roger Etoa said the former first lady, Irene Biya, visited the neo-natal
ward, then known as “Pavillion Baudeloque” where she the offer gifts to children.
He added that when Chantal Biya became first
lady the neonatal ward of the Yaounde Central Hospital became autonomous and
was renamed Chantal Biya Foundation.
The foundation (which was a ward in the Yaounde Central hospital) inherited and now its own incubators, nurses, pediatricians, equipment and medication but without the maternity.
The foundation (which was a ward in the Yaounde Central hospital) inherited and now its own incubators, nurses, pediatricians, equipment and medication but without the maternity.
Dr
Roger Etoa in the facebook post https://www.facebook.com/etoaroger/posts/10204382941173237 said it was difficult for the hospital to create its own neo-natal service (lost to the Chantal Biya Foundation) with the existence of the
Chantal Biya Foundation located just at a stone’s throw.
DOING HARM THAN GOOD? |
He added that it remains unclear if the
networking system of the neo-natal wards in hospitals in Yaounde functioned the
way it ought to be.
The Chantal Biya
Foundation, the Yaounde Teaching Hospital, CUSS, the Yaounde Gynaco-Obstetric and
Pediatric Hospital, the General Hospital, the CNPS Hospital,
the Full Gospel Bathesda
Hospital and of recent the Biyam Assi district hospitals are the major health
establishments hosting neo-natal departments in Cameroon's capital, Yaounde.
what did you expect. the director will always shift the blame.
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