Day: May 22, 2023

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Manaouda Malachie leads Cameroon delegation at 76th World Health Assembly

The 76th World Health Assembly is taking place in Switzerland between May 21-30, with delegations from WHO member states including Cameroon, meeting in Geneva to brainstorm on major health concerns the world is currently faced with.

Participants will deliberate on ways to “create a future where every person has access to the health services they need” World Health Organization (WHO) Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, adding that “it means strengthening the global architecture for health emergency preparedness, response and resilience, and supporting countries on the road to universal health coverage.”

Minister Manaouda Malachie, representing Cameroonian at the event, also remarked that “universal health coverage, so dear to the Head of State, H.E. Paul Biya, is one of the key topics.”

The activities which started on Sunday under the theme: “WHO at 75: Saving lives, driving health for all”, will feature discussions on current and future priorities for public health issues of global importance.

It will also focus on strategies and global action on areas such as women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health rehabilitation, traditional medicine, infection prevention and control, health of refugees and migrants, mental health, nutrition and disabilities.

This year’s edition will equally mark the 75th anniversary of the World Health Organization.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

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Health workers at Yaoundé emergency centre on strike, demand better working conditions

Some health workers of the Yaounde Emergency Unit took to the streets on May 22nd, 2023 to protest against poor working conditions amongst other issues they face.

The health workers demand an increase salaries as well as increase in medical resources. They stated that they are fed up with the “contractualization of all temporary public health training, which is 27,000 staff representing 60% of the workforce who are working without wages and affiliation to CNPS,”.

Carrying messages on placards stating “A nurse in distress is more dangerous than a soldier at the war front,” they also express their dissatisfaction due to the limited resources allocated which can not meet the needs of patients.

“ we are not able to work properly due to limited equipments. Some times we have critical emergency cases but we can’t handle them,” a nurse stated.

The Nurses demand an increase in salaries of staff from the 1st to the 6th category to be put at 75000F and 95,000 for those from the 7th to the 12th category.

They also denounce the nonpayment of CNPS benefits to staff and say they have gone for over 5 years without those benefits.

After their strike action ,Some health workers reportedly stormed the Ministry of Public Health office to lay their complaints.

They stated that the strike action will last for 5 hours everyday (from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) till a solution is provided to their 17 complaints listed.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

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Barred from marching in Bamenda, Frankist movement pours venom

Wearing sky blue T-shirts and holding the Cameroon flag, at the last minute when associations and political parties were to march, the Secretary-General at the North West Governor’s office stopped the FRANKISTS from marching without any explanation.

The MCFM is a movement created and made up of members who support and want the president’s son, Emmanuel Paul Biya, to succeed his father as president of the Republic.

Police officers are reported to have blocked the FRANKISTS MOVEMENT at the commercial avenue and asked them not to proceed with the marchpast because they have been given instructions by the Secretary-General to the North West governor’s office, Basiliken George Emmanuel, not to allow them to march.

In reaction, the SG of the Frankists movement ( MCFP ) Fungwe Elvis said, he was embarrassed with the decision of the North West governor’s office to stop the movement from marching on 20th May in Bamenda, whereas the movement marched in Wum, Nkambe, Babessi and in Ndu.

“It is a kind of hatred which I think the governor’s office will have to look over it again. We deposited an application to march on 20th May with the SG at the governor’s office, we all discussed and made him understand that, (MCFP) wasn’t yet a political party, but a movement that want to partake in the national day under associations. He saw that with us and we showed him documents showing the movements papers were at the office of territorial Administration pending recognition as a political party. He even encouraged us to meet other groups at commercial avenue doing rehearsals prelude to 20th May, which we did, but I was surprised again that after mobilizing our members and spending to have them at commercial avenue, the North West governor’s office had to stop us from marching. This is wickedness. The movement marched in Buea, Bafousam, Doula, and other towns in Cameroon, why stop us in Bamenda?” he said.

The movement now has executive bureaus in all the ten regions of Cameroon, and it’s gradually having bureaus in all divisions and sub-divisions of Cameroon.

Source: Cameroon News Agency