YAOUNDE HOSP SCANDAL: DIRECTOR DENIES LACK OF INCUBATORS, CHANTAL BIYA FOUNDATION BLAMED?

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.

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

 Table A shows that at least four of the children alive, while Table B clearly indicates that all of the feutuses died at least 5 Minutes after. 

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.

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.