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There are indications
that the scandals at the Laquantinie Hospital in Douala and the Central Hospital
in Yaounde in March 2016, are giving Cameroon’s Minister of Public Health
sleepless nights.
In a March 31 2016 statement, which sounded like corrective measures addressing and avoiding a repeat of the Koumateke
and Nkimih cases, the Minister gave six months to Managing Directors of Central,
Regional, District hospitals and Chief medical officers, for results.
Andre Mama Fouda said
the management in hospitals must be immediate, in attending to life serving
emergency cases without demanding any prior payment and that the movement of patients within hospitals be supervised by the medical staff.
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The Minister recommended that all medical staff be fully identified with badges, vehicles searched upon entrance and exit and that Directors of Central and Regional Hospital set up video surveillance
systems at access and hot points within a six month period.
The Public Health Minister
recognizes that public hospitals have lost the confidence of patients who considers such structures as hostile environments, characterized by extortion and all forms of
abuses.
He also spoke to of
unannounced visits and sanctions.
Could the Minister’s directives
regain public confidence in public hospitals or should be considered cheap talk?
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