“E dong bad for Biya”

By Akoson Raymond

I watched the president's visit to the Grand North over CRTV with a lot of consternation. He visited to sympathise with the flood victims in the Far North region. But the turn out was nothing but a mockery. I am very certain that Biya was very disappointed. One could read it all over his face ... he only managed to force out the smiles. I kept asking myself: is this the turn out for a head of state's visit? Not just a political campaign but a visit to show sympathy! Did they not allocate for heavy envelopes to 'langa throat' dance groups? Or these dance groups simply said, 'no, but thanks'? One could actually count the number of people in attendance: nothing more than the family and relatives of top government officials - governors, DOs, SDOs and a few, yes a few civil servants.

An Ayah Paul rally in a similar place could pull a crowd two thousand times more than what we saw. In fact, if someone like Fru Ndi were to disgrace Biya's turn out, let him make a similar visit.
It is important to note that soon after the flood disaster, Biya dispatched his ministers to go issue the usual bags of rice and make contributions. The CRTV sang the event for close to a week. It seems a team came back to Biya and said something like, 'Mr. President, those guys are really mad... you sep sep go because e dong bad!' And the old man goes and received a provocative turn out!
The Northerners may be thinking; 'who the hell does he think he is? He messed with us in 1984 - an act for which we're yet to react and now our very own Marafa?' The pack of cards will soon crumble one way or the other. Detractors, I didn't make this up. Watch CRTV images on these events.

Pharmacy students from St. Louis Institute are the best in Cameroon

-          Tekuh Achu Kingsley, Laquintinie Hospital Douala

The Chief Executive Officer,

St. Louis Institute of Health,

Bamenda

Sir,

 It is with great smile on my cheek when I see how far my Alma Mata has grown. The joy I feel is just as the joy a father or a mother has when he/she sees his/her children succeed. What else can I say, if not to say, congratulation and keep on, Doct. I am called Tekuh Achu Kingsley, a pharmacy student, first batch pharmacy department,"2005/2008"batch and the first ever class coordinator of all the 5 departments of St. Louis, actually working in Laquintinie Hospital Douala, Sir you have indeed done something for our great nation Cameroon. I was really glad when I read through the 2012/2013 prospectus on the internet that a Pharm D programme for pharmacy will soon go operational.
Sir, there is no gainsaying the fact that pharmacy students especially from the St. Louis University Institute of Health are the best you can find in Cameroon today. oh! You may ask about their potentials and the next question one while ask you is;"do you still have some free graduates for me to take for I have looked for them every where but it seem all are hooked up please sir don't ask me of what potential they are but just give me one or two and you will have the answer when next you pass around where I have placed them ".
Sir, with all our eyes lifted unto you, we wait patiently for the Pharm D program, and believe me you will be pleased with the mighty return of your favorite First Borns pharmacy technology students. Extend my warmest greeting and greatest wishes of success to all the pharmacy students of St. Louis and give them this closing remark as a guide for them: "With Him, (Dr. Nick Ngwanyam) we made it and with him, you to will make. Keep on, you all are on the right track. Just let him do the driving for you". Thanks Dr. Nick Ngwanyam, You are a hero.

Yours sincerely,

Tekuh Achu Kingsley   

Laquintinie Hospital Douala

 

Most of our graduates have already picked up jobs in the country & abroad

-         Nick Ngwanyam, CEO, St. Louis University Institute

Dear Kingsley,

I wish to sincerely thank you for your wonderful and kind words. I am glad that you have taken advantage of the opportunities that we gave you at St Louis University Institute of Health in Bamenda and that today you are proud, happy and productive.
We are happy for this feed back. I understand you want two more students who have graduated whom you want to place in some jobs. God bless you. We do not have many available but as this mail goes out to the student body, those that are free from this batch that just graduated would certainly get in touch with you. Many of them already picked up jobs in various places all over the country and abroad.
Yes, we intend to continue to give all of you the best and to help you to grow. We are working on the PharmD program with some German Pharmaceutical Firms and Universities. While waiting for that to happen, we are working with the University of Buea and the Ministry of Higher Education to put in place the Bachelor of Pharmacy Program which will be obtained one year after your HPD. As you know PharmD is a seven year program and we shall get there God being our helper.
In this academic year, we have the one year degree programs for Nursing, Physiotherapy, Dental Therapy, Medical Lab Sciences, Radiology and Ultrasonography, We continue to thank the staff and students of St Louis who did a marvelous job last academic year scoring a hundred percent in all disciplines with a lot of distinctions especially in Radiology.
Graduation this year is tentatively set for Saturday 17th November, 2012 at St Louis Mile 111 Nkwen. We shall have to confirm this date with H.E. Gov. Lele A, the University of Buea authorities and the Ministry of Higher Education in Yaounde.
As you know we shall be graduating 28 students in the first batch of B.Tech degree students from St Louis come November. They have spent four years at St Louis. Remember that after the HPD, you study for one year to get the bachelor degree.
The students with the Higher Professional Diploma for graduation come November are as follows: Dental Therapy 27, Radiology 20, Medical Lab Sciences 42, Nursing 130, Physiotherapy 20 and Pharmacy 17.
The new field of study that will start this year is Midwifery. Remember you can get more details about our activities from our web page. Do not hesitate to get in touch with us at any time for any information you might need or suggestions you think can help us.

Dr Nick Ngwanyam, MD

CEO St Louis Group

POB 661 Bamenda

North West Region
Rep of Cameroon

TEL( CELL) 237- 7776 46 74

stlouisclinicbamenda@yahoo.co.uk

www.saintlouisgroup.cm

Woman fakes death over 223.500FCFA hospital bill

From Maxcel Fokwen in Kumba

A woman diagnosed of ruptured ectopic pregnancy at the Hope Clinic Kosala Kumba has ended up declaring herself death conning family members to pay her bills. The rare trapping gained public attention in Kumba Friday September 16, 2012 when family members who had abandoned her in the hospital came prepared to pay mortuary bills and to collect her corpse.

Recounting the incident, the director of Hope Clinic, Jerry Etabong Esua  explained that the lady in question whose bio data we are withholding for professional reasons came  to the hospital on July 31, 2012 seriously sick. She was accompanied by her mother and a small child claiming that she had a miscarriage.

 According to Jerry, laboratory findings read that she had a raptured ectopic pregnancy of about 12weeks old causing a lot of blood to accumulate in  her abdominal cavity a situation nearing death. He furthered that her hemoglobin was so low that he ordered for plasma expanders from the general hospital Kumba to sustain the patient since she came out of Kumba and did not know anybody who could donate blood to her.

Etabong maintained that despite pieces of advice from colleagues and nurses that the patient risk not surviving if operated upon; he went ahead without asking for any money and did a successful operation. Meanwhile the mother had assured that the girl’s husband was in the oven drying cocoa and would pay the bills immediately after operations.

 By August 8, the patient had her bills pending payment and so the mother zoomed off assuring the hospital administration that she was going to look for money but came back with nothing after three weeks. In the meantime, the patient was barely surviving on the pockets of other patients in the hospital.

Going by Etabong, it coincidentally happened that the abandoned patient met with a friend of hers in the hospital who had also been operated upon and so the two conspired and called the mother of the abandoned patient telling her the daughter had died.

“Two days later, the mother arrived with the father and sister ... so when she heard they had come, she went and hid herself in a toilet to show that she had effectively died. They brought 140.000FCFA and the remaining 83500 FCFA was to be paid later and the next day five persons came for the corpse. I told them I will send a driver to go and leave them with the corpse and all the rest. They entered my office, I sent for the driver who came with the girl alive… the father looked at the girl astonished with his eyes and mouth opened and called the girl’s name which I don’t want to mention and said how are you and the girl said fine; the brother carried his hands on the head and said ‘doctor, weti wey you don do  na only God go pay you for  safe this  my sister, we be check sey we don los yi’”. Etabong detailed.

Meanwhile The Guardian Post gathered that before coming for the corpse, canopies had been raised back home waiting for her remains to be brought home.  A nurse at Hope Clinic who spoke on anonymity told The Guardian Post that the said woman is an indigene of Maromba a village  in the peripheries of Meme division.

Kumba gov’t delegate breaks silence over water crisis

In the wake of acute water crisis that has plunged Kumba into a potential cholera plagued city and the much-heralded preparations for the celebrations of 50 years of reunification billed for Buea this year, the government delegate to the Kumba city council, Ngoh Nkele Victor in this interview granted The Guardian Post sizes up the level of preparations on the ground and the strides being made to restore good drinking water to the public. He spoke to Maxcel Fokwen. Excepts

Kumba has been facing  water crisis for quite a long time now, what is being done to arrest the worsening situation?

The water crisis in Kumba is something that concerns all of us. I went right to Douala to meet the Camwater director general. We discussed and I have seen the technicians that have been there working on the filters and the other problems and yesterday Sunday(16^th September 2012), the technicians came to my house and they brought  a specimen of good water and I saw it and told them to go back and continue to make sure that the water has no colour and they assured me  that everything is over and  I think the entire population of Kumba would start enjoying  good drinking water.

Where is Kumba with respect to security and cleanliness for the upcoming celebrations of reunification?

Thank you very much, I think the city of Kumba like Tiko, Limbe, Muyuka and Buea have an obligation to see that the cities are all clean. I want to tell you that we of the city of Kumba want to make this town very alluring to the number of guests of high standing that would be coming. We intend first of all to put our hygiene and sanitation service workable. From today, if you look at the city, you would see people cleaning it.  It means therefore that we have started our job and will not relent our efforts in cleaning the town.

What about the situation of the hotels?

That is why we are telling hotel owners that they should make their environment very clean and attractive to the guests that would come into the city of Kumba during the reunification ceremony. I think we are going to work without relenting our efforts because since people have not taken it serious, but now I know every first Thursday of the month as usual, we would all jointly keep the city clean.

Kumba is noted for epileptic electricity supply anything being done to brighten the city?

Yeah, first of all you see the two and a half kilometer stretch of road (from Kumba Mbeng to town Green) is accompanied by electricity in the town on a daily basis and the next thing is that we were told that the constructors were going to provide us with some electrical assistance in terms of bulbs and poles. For the streets, we are also waiting. It has started in Buea  and Limbe  and I think Kumba  too is also waiting. We think that we would extend electricity to the neighbourhoods, Kumba would be shining and real shining and we would be very safe.

Can lighting alone guarantee adequate security?

 We are also making sure that a lot of police men would leave Buea  and come to Kumba during this period. I mean from now. Don’t be embarrassed if you see the police moving along the streets in the night.

Can we say electricity in to the neighbourhoods and the opening of more roads would be a fall out from the would­ be 50^th anniversary reunification celebrations?

It is a fall out and we expect it to be a very serious fallout .You know with electricity, that is security and we are sure that they are going to assist us in that field , then  we should be very happy, we are all waiting  and am sure things  would move on well.