Flenhihbs Bamenda Recognized for Stainless Top Quality Results for Ten years

The Cameroon Performance Awards has found the Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences Bamenda a worthy recipient of its mark of recognition. During an Award Event that took place at the School campus on Wednesday October 7th, Mr Nkwain Joseph, Director of the Higher Institute said the recognition was certainly due to the stainless top quality results that the school had registered in its ten years of existence. 

"This institution was created ten years ago and since then it has always scored a hundred percent in all examinations be it examinations organised by the Ministry of Higher Education or the Ministry of Public Health. Under the Ministry of Public Health we train State Registered Nurses and Nursing Assistants and under the Ministry of Higher Education we have been training HND candidates in Biomedical Sciences and throughout we have been scoring a hundred percent. Last year, we were ranked the best school in the whole Republic of Cameroon as far as the HND is concerned and I am sure that all of this has contributed to our success."

Mr Nkwain Joseph further explained that the Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Bamenda. "As a Higher Institution of Learning, we are not a full fledged University and we can only offer certain specialties in collaboration with State Universities and that is why we have signed this partnership with the University of Bamenda so that we can extend our programmes to the Bachelor Degree and maybe later to the Masters and why not PHD" he explained.

He called on students interested in the Biomedical Sciences to take the Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences as their priority adding that it was the quality of the products of the school that has been attracting attention from different quarters in the Cameroonian society. "We don't advertise but students still come here. You should have noticed that we don't even have a notice board. If the CBC Health Services select our students, then it means our products are of top quality."

Dr. Njini Rose, General Supervisor at the Bamenda Regional Hospital who was present at the Award Event said she had collaborated with the institution for long and was impressed by the quality of personnel that had been churned out from there. The Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services she said has also been making use of products from the Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences. This among other examples she said was an indication of the good work that was being done at the institution.

Present during the event was the staff of Flenhihbs and a cross section of some collaborators of the establishment.

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Frontline Academician and Health Developer Receives Performance Award

 

By FEN Lenjo

Professor Egbe Philip Egbengu, Head of Department of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the Catholic University in Cameroon CATUC, Bamenda and Medical Director of the Royal Victoria Clinic in Bamenda has received the Cameroon Performance Award. This took place on Saturday in the city of Bamenda within the confines of the Royal Victoria Clinic premises at Loh Benson Quarters, Foncha Street. 

According to the Organising Committee of Cameroon Performance Awards through the words of its National Coordinator, Francis Ekongang Nzante, the Award is in recognition of the efforts Professor Egbe Philip Egbengu has been putting in the Academic Field building a formidable Department of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the Catholic University CATUC Bamenda. "It is also in recognition of your efforts as Medical Director of the Royal Victoria Clinic during these trying moments of the COVID 19 Pandemic" he said.

The CPA Organising Committee emphasised that because of these inputs, Professor Egbe was truly a Frontline Academician and a Health Developer.

On reception of the CPA Award, Professor Egbe said, he wasn't aware that sometimes when you do some of these things you were observed. He recounted how he started the clinic in the heat of the Anglophone Crisis. Against all the challenges as well as advise from friends and colleagues who discouraged him, he went ahead. "Professor Berynyuy who was one of the first patients here certainly remembers how this place was very bushy. We maintained our focus and started from no where and today we are where you find us. Some people may think it is time to sit on our laureals but no, it is time to work. We have just realised only 30% of what we set out to do."

 The professor did not fail to mention contributions from well wishing Cameroonians. He equally mentioned Rev Father Bintum and Professor Berynyuy whom he said had constantly chipped in very constructive ideas as he worked on the Royal Victoria Clinic Project.

The next thing in his program would be a Mental Health Outfit he said adding that he had been receiving lots of encouragement and ideas on this project from Reverend Father Bintum whom he said had been a driving force in his project all along.

 Talking about his dream for Royal Victoria Clinic the Health Developer said "It is not just us here. We have a lot of inputs from friends of the clinic and well wishing Cameroonians who have visions which impact on our professional calling. Visions which we incorporate into the grand project of Royal Victoria Clinic. It is not just about opening a clinic. It's about opening a standard clinic." He said it was unfortunate that when Africans study abroad and see top quality structures, they always failed to maintain the same standards when they wanted to build their own structures back home. 

Royal Victoria Clinic he said was trying to fill all those lapses. "This project is trying to meet all those ramifications, the technical quality, the professional calling, the social impact or the impact on society. We are trying to incorporate all of these and come out with a strong Blueprint that will represent health in Cameroon not only in our contemporary time but also in the future."

Professor Egbe Philip Egbengu has been involved in teaching and the practice of Professional Medicine for almost fourty years. Commenting on this, he said medicine was not just the intellect but the application of what had been gathered over the years. 

In building the clinic, cognizance was taken of certain present realities like the COVID 19 Pandemic. The reception area at the entrance to the clinic as well as the entrance to the Laboratory are provided with glass shields that separate the patients from the health personnel attending to them. 

Medical Practice today he said goes with the necessary technology adding that in that domain, Royal Victoria Clinic could comfortably hold its head above water level. 

Though Royal Victoria Clinic provides Health Services, the professor unequivocally stated that they were also in business. "We've gone past that stage when health was considered as a humanitarian activity. When you make health a business, you do it better."

Proudly stating the achievements so far made by the clinic in one year seven months, the professor said there was no hospital in Bamenda and by extension the North West Region that had the standards of Victoria Royal Clinic. He said  that's why when you come to the clinic your health problems were solved. 

Professor Egbe Philip Egbengu said he was very gratified to be recognized by the Cameroon Performance Awards. "I am not the only Medical Doctor around and if I can be singled among the few that have been recognized by your Award out of the 2900 doctors in the country it gives me the greatest pleasure. Secondly it's like a showcase to my establishment. There are very few occasions where five media organs will visit an organization like ours so I have every reason to be grateful."

The Professor seized the opportunity to take his guests on a guided tour of the clinic from the reception area through the spotless and we'll equipped Laboratory to the wards.

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University of Bamenda Signs Partnership Agreements with Higher Institutions of Learning

By Francis E. Nzante

The University of Bamenda on Sunday September 27th signed partnership agreements with some fourteen Higher Institutions of Learning from across the country. The nature or categories of these partnerships included Memorandums of Understanding MoUs, Specific Partnership Agreements SPAs and Specific Partnership Agreements for Expansion.

The Vice Chancellor in her speech at the opening of the ceremony

MoUs were signed with two institutions. Theses included the Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences Bamenda Flenhihbs, and Skyhigh Higher Institute of Engineering and Business SHHIEB, Douala. 

Mr Yong Jaques on behalf of Institute Superieur JIMIT Yaounde and the Vice Chancellor

Meantime, Specific Partnership Agreements were signed with the Access  Higher Institute of Professional Studies ACCESS-HIPS, Douala represented by its promoter Dr Leke Charles. Other schools which signed partnerships in this category included the Yaounde Higher School of Economics and Management YSEM and Institute Superieur JIMIT, Yaounde represented by Mr Yong Jaques who sat in for the promoter.

Mr Nkwain Joseph Director of Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences Bamenda with Vice Chancellor.

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The bigger chunk of establishments involved in the signing of partnerships fell in the third category which was Specific Partnership Agreements for Expansion. In this group were the Havard Higher Institute of Science and Technology HHIST, Bamenda, Institute Superieur des Sciences Appliquees a la Sante INSSAS, Bafossam, National Polytechnic University Institute NPUI Bamenda, Lead Higher Institute Yaounde, Higher Institute of Business Management and Technology HIBMAT, Buea, Higher Institute of Management Studies HIMS Buea, Institute Superieur des Sciences Biologiques et Appliquees ISSBA Yaounde, Institute Universitaire Siantou IUS Yaounde and Institute Des Science Economique Et Informatique De Gestion ISEIG Yaounde.

The Vice Chancellor of National Polytechnic University Institute Bamenda with the UBa Vice Chancellor after signing of Partnership

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Highlights of the signing ceremony included a speech by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Bamenda Professor Rose Akenji in which she appropriately placed emphasis on the importance of the exercise in the lives of these Private Higher Institutions of Learning. This was followed by a ceremonious signing exercise with all the necessary academic paraphernalia with each establishment involved taking its turn at the podium in the University Restaurant. 

Dr. Leke Charles of ACCESS-HIPS Douala poses here with UBa Vice Chancellor after signing of SPA; Specific Partnership Agreement

The closing remarks at this very important rendezvous in the lives of Private Higher Institutions of Learning in Cameroon were made by the Vice Chancellor of UBa.

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Senator Barrister Kemende bags Prestigious Performance Award

 

- Dedicates it to Suffering Masses in the NW & SW

Senator Barrister Kemende Henry Gamsey on Sunday September 27 in Bamenda, received the Cameroon Performance Award in a gathering of friends, family and colleagues. According to the National Coordinator and Chairperson of the Organising Committee, this award was given in recognition of what Barrister Kemende Henry Gamsey has been doing since he became a member of the Upper House.

 The presence of this outspoken gentleman in the Senate had made debates to better reflect the presence of Opposition parties. The organizers further explained that his constant media outings had made him an indespensable ingredient in the Political Transformation Process of Cameroon. "Your ideas and prescriptions have fuelled the National Debate on how the country should move forward" the organiser stated. Meantime, the senator has dedicated his award to the suffering masses in the crisis riddled Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon.

In a press briefing shortly after reception of the prestigious award, the Senator expressed the way he felt in the following words: "This award means a lot to me. Even as the war rages on, there is always room for the market to hold. Permit me use that African adage. In my vernacular, there is an adage to the effect that while the war goes on, market days don't fail to hold.  During these market days, the ongoings are discussed. To me this Award Event represents such Market Days during war and I have dedicated it to the people who are victims of the ongoing crisis."

He explained that while some parties that were directly involved in the war were not suffering, many innocent civilians had been forced to undergo untold hardships as a result of the crisis. The Senator said it was for the suffering people that he constantly intervened in the Upper House and that it was as a result of these constant interventions that this award was being given to him. 

"Without the ongoing crisis I don't think I would have had the chance to keep intervening through the media. I want to thank the organizers of the CPA for organising this and for recognizing me."

He called on the suffering masses in the two crisis riddled regions to stay calm and pray for peace to return soon.  

Explaining why he felt he had been recognized, he said apart from what had been written on the award, the recognition comes against a backdrop of a parliament that is dominantly made up of hand clappers who contribute nothing towards the advancement of the democratic process but simply serve as rubber stamps to endorse anything that is rammed down their throats. In such a parliament he felt he had to constantly speak for the people. "I thank the God Almighty for empowering me to see things differently and to propose different solutions. Maybe if the solutions proposed by me and my political party were heeded to we would not be where we are today."

Hinting on the rationale behind Cameroon Performance Awards the Senator said people should always allow the potential that's in them to sprout. People he said should always show the exceptional qualities in them adding that if God deemed it necessary to create you after creating millions of other humans then there was certainly an extra reason for creating you. Each individual had an extra quality that must always be worked upon he said.

The National Coordinator of the CPA Francis Ekongang Nzante was accompanied for the Award Event in Bamenda by some members of the Organising Committee; Mr Emmanuel Bah Toko from Bamenda, Mr Leonard Sigeh L. from Yaounde and Mr Belack Ernest Jimbam.

Meantime the Senator was accompanied for the event by his wife, kids, relatives, close friends and colleagues amongst whom were the President of the Northwest Lawyers Association NOWELA, Barrister Acha Collins, Justice Taminang Ignatius ATTE amongst many others.

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HND 2020 Results

 Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences Hits 100%Target

By Francis Ekongang Nzante

Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences Bamenda has once more hit the 100% target following the release of the 2020 results of the Higher National Diploma HND. This revelation was made recently by the the Director of the institution Mr Nkwain Joseph in press chat with Edev Newspaper.

The Director revealed that through out the ten year's existence of the school, the institution has never scored less than 100% at the Higher National Diploma Examinations.

"This school has existed for ten years and as far as this examination that is organised by the Ministry of Higher Education is concerned, the institution has scored a hundred percent throughout its existence. Last year this school scored the best results in the whole country. This year for all the options that we went in that is the Nursing and Medical Laboratory Sciences, we scored a hundred percent and the number that we put in was quite substantial. We have been doing so much in terms of quality and quantity. Even with the Ministry of Public Health, that is with State Registered Nurses, for all the years we have also been having a hundred percent. This is because we have a very experienced and competent staff in the various disciplines."

With this series of successes registered by the school, the establishment is now poised to move to the next level. Firstly, Bachelor Degrees will be offered by the establishment in the 2020-2021 Academic Year. It is in preparation for this that the Higher Institution of Learning is Signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Bamenda.

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New Age Oil Company Donates FCFA 25 Millions worth of Equipments to the Limbe Regional Hospital

The New African Global Energy Company with acronym "New Age" has donated FCFA 25 Millions worth of Anti COVID-19 Equipment to the Limbe Regional Hospital. The equipments were handed over to the Director of the Limbe Regional Hospital, Dr Kinge Thompson Njie on Friday September 11 by Diane Bakehe, the Human Resource and Management Officer of the Oil Company within the confines of the premises of the Regional Hospital.

 While handing over the equipments, Diane Bakehe who represented Mr Bruno De Vinck, the Director of New Age Oil Company noted that the Limbe Regional Hospital despite its 75 years of age still looked very clean. She said the African Global Energy Company had branches in London, China, amongst others. All these branches she said contributed to the equipments that were being handed over to the Limbe Regional Hospital. She said Corporate Social Responsibility has always been taken very seriously by New Age Oil Company. To butress her point, she mentioned aid that had been provided by the company to some Educational Establishments like Government Primary School Debunscha and Government Primary School Idenau Group 2 and 3. She said the company was now shifting it's attention to the Health Sector.

The Limbe Regional Hospital she said, was just one among other hospitals earmarked to benefit from the company's 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility package. 

On reception of the equipments, Dr Kinge Thompson Njie, Director of the Limbe Regional Hospital said the donation was timely considering the fact that the hospital had been facing some challenges in tackling COVID-19 cases due to the absence of certain equipments. He said the hospital had registered 265 comfirmed cases adding that the last five cases were comfirmed within 72 hours prior to the reception of the equipments. 10 patients he said had been lost to COVID-19 mostly due to lack of oxygen supply. The supply of the new equipment he said would certainly take care of this problem since most of the deaths occurred as a result of lack of intensive care. He said the hospital staff felt strengthened by the equipment and promised to make good use of it. 

Some Administrative authorities present appealed to the population to have confidence in the expertise of the staff of the hospital and called on them to observe barrier measures and to do the COVID-19 screening test. Meantime the City Mayor to the Limbe City Council who was represented congratulated Dr Kinge Thompson Njie for his Reception of the Cameroon Performance Awards CPA 2020 adding that he was an example for the younger generation to emulate. 

On behalf of the Regional Delegate for Public Health in the Southwest Region, Mr Njie Esasa expressed gratitude for the gesture by New Age Oil Company and said it was timely because of the challenges being faced coupled with the upcoming 2021 African Nations Championships CHAN slated to take place in Cameroon with Limbe hosting one of the groups. He further said the personnel of the Limbe Regional Hospital was well trained and would make good use of the equipment. The equipment he said would go a long way to improve upon the health status of the Southwest population as a whole and called on other companies to emulate the example of New Age Oil Company.

The Divisional Officer for Limbe I Acha Nkwenty Mofor equally called on others to join in strengthening the Limbe Regional Hospital and reminded the population that COVID-19 truly existed and that barrier measures should continuously be respected.

Present at the Limbe Regional Hospital to participate in the reception of the equipment were Traditional Rulers from around Limbe.

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CPDM Mayors, MPs throw weight behind Quest for Peace in NW

 

- City Mayor proposes Constitutional Adjustments

 CPDM Mayors, Members of Parliament and Senators from the Northwest Region recently met in Bamenda, Capital of the Northwest Region with an intention of mapping out strategies to bring peace and fight insecurity in the Crisis Riddled Region amongst other things. This meeting came in the wake of gun battles in the heart of the city which claimed the life of atleast a uniformed man. 

Paul Achobong Tembeng, City Mayor of Bamenda, in his speech during the workshop called for an adjustment of the Constitution to include clauses that would make sure that crisis such as the one presently rocking the country do not occur in future. The Anglophone Crisis he said had resulted in the greatest Economic Recession ever experienced in the Northwest in particular and Cameroon at large. Paul Achobong further said the time had come for lessons to be drawn and major decisions taken to make sure that such a situation never repeats itself in future. It is in this vein that he suggested that certain amendments be made to the Constitution. He suggested that all Cameroonians should be made to swear their love for the Fatherland and that no group of individuals irrespective of the circumstances should take up arms against the Fatherland. He said provisions should be inserted in the Constitution to make sure  that there never would be any conflict between Tribes or between villages. These amendments he proposed should be taught in schools from Primary Schools and included in school textbooks. The amendments he further said should be published on Billboards and on Public Buildings. 

Harping on the importance of Education in civilization he said classrooms needed to be reconstructed and teachers given some reasonable degree of comfort.

Referring to road infrastructures he cited the deplorable situation of the road entering the Northwest from the West Region. He did not fail to mention the deplorable state of roads in the city of Bamenda which he said had not been catered for due to insecurity for a long time. 

Numerating some causes of the present stalemate in Bamenda he cited misinformation and distortion of information to produce a particular mind frame among the people. He also mentioned the spiritual drifting away of children from worshipping of the true God to the worship of idols and phenomena such as "Odeshi".

The first step towards solving the present problems he said should be the changing of the mindset of the people. For this to happen, all the available media, the churches and the mosques had to be used, he said.

He said he had just co-signed an Administrative Order with the Senior Divisional Officer for Mezam restricting the movement of bikes from Commercial Avenue and Administrative areas. He further said that the City Council would be paying for 1000 Driving Licences for both bike riders and Taxi Drivers adding that bike riders who wanted to become taxi drivers would be aided by the City Council through the provision of Category B Driving Licences. This he said would cost the City Council a collosal sum of FCFA 30 millions which he said was not too much to spend to build a cleaner and safer town.  

The City Mayor said for a change of mindset to be achieved, the support of all the Members of Parliament and Senators of the Region was needed. 

Also highlighted during the meeting was the need for a synergy between the Mayors, Members of Parliament and Senators for their aspirations in the Region to be met with. The aim of the creation of this Platform of CPDM Elected Officials in the North West Region was to brainstorm and seek for ways to better serve the population and in this way regain the confidence of the people they represent. 

This maiden workshop of the platform was dedicated to creating collaboration between Mayors and Parliamentarians as well as between Mayors and Counselors. It also involved creating the much needed collaboration between Elected Officials, the administration and the security Forces as well as a follow up procedure for school resumption in the 2020-2021 Academic Year. It also concerned itself with preparations for the upcoming Regional Elections. 

Senator Regina Mundi who was also in attendance said the present times were most challenging for the CPDM party to implement it's ideals on the field. These ideals she said included the creation of a stable, united and indivisible Cameroon. She called on the CPDM Elected Officials to work as servants and to carry out their duties with abnegation. "Our party aims at all times to transform society for the better" she said adding that as a new breed of leaders, they should be aiming for higher positions. "You are the agents of change and Transformative Leadership demands reliability, honesty and truthfullness" she said. Transformation she said starts at the individual Level explaining that they should be able to give what they expected in life to others. She challenged everyone present to put into practice what has come to be referred to as "Living Together". To do this we have to be each other's keeper she emphasised. 

Most of the Mayors spoken to explained that the role of the Councils was to prepare the grounds for School Resumption by talking to parents about the importance of sending their kids to school. Another identified important responsibility of the Councils was to encourage youngsters who had taken up arms and stayed in the bushes to come out and be reinserted into society.

In attendance at the meeting were all the CPDM Mayors of the Northwest Region as well as Members of Parliament. The meeting was equally attended by the Governor of the Northwest Region Adolphe Lele L'Afrique, the SDO for Mezam Division Emill Moh and coordinated by Honourable Njingum Musa.

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