Director of the Bamenda
Regional Hospital
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| Governor Adolphe Lele L'Afrique and Dr. Kingue Thompson Director of the Bamenda Regional Hospital |
Doctor Kingue Thompson, Director of the Bamenda
Regional Hospital has declared that communication flow between the Bamenda
Regional Hospital and smaller hospitals in the Region has not been very
effective. This he said has resulted into the estimated 700 deaths that were
registered at the hospital in the course of the year 2017. He was speaking
recently during the Annual Prize Award ceremony that was organised on the 14th
of December within the premises of the Regional Health Establishment. Speaking
in the presence of the Governor of the North West Region, Adolphe Lele L’Afrique,
Dr. Lingue Thompson said the Regional Hospital remained the mother hospital in
the Region and praised the courage the staff showed during 2017 which he said
was a very difficult year. He was interviewed by Francis Ekongang Nzante of
Edev Newspaper, Baarka Derick of Abakwa FM Radio and a host of other
journalists.
Director, it is another moment for you to
once more celebrate your staff. What exactly are you celebrating?
The staff of the Regional Hospital Bamenda is
exceptionally happy. We are celebrating this 2017 end of year Prize Award
ceremony in a special context. End of 2016 and most parts of 2017 were recorded
as very rough moments for staff in this hospital. They worked under very
difficult conditions yet one could see the determination, the courage and
sacrifice. Even when we had ghost towns, staffs were able to come to work. Today
the Administration of the hospital, following firm instructions from the
Ministry of Public Health is celebrating all these wonderful men and women,
Doctors, Nurses, Technicians and auxiliary workers. All of them have worked
very hard though it is true that some of them received prizes today. Like in
every community we are also looking at role models so that others can copy and
in that way work in 2018 will be done in a manner more appealing to everyone.
You lost about 700
hundred lives in this hospital in 2017. Including reasons such as the late
arrival of some of the victims what would you say contributed to this?
The Bamenda Regional Hospital is the Mother
Hospital of the North West Region with the greatest number of specialists Doctors
and nurses that you can find in any hospital in the Region. Unfortunately money
has become the bait for health institutions unable to manage a wide spectrum of
health problems. It is not because you are a health institution that has cured
two cases of Malaria that you should think you can now cure heart diseases. Unfortunately,
the relay of communication between us and the small hospitals has not been very
effective. When patients have money, these hospitals want to make sure that the
money is completely finished before they are released. To make matters worse
there have been complications that doctors here find themselves in very
helpless situations. I am not saying that patients who come here cannot die but
I am simply expressing my desire to have saved at least a few out of all those
who died.
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