Dev’t Cooperation:

Christine Robichon laying the foundation stone

CBC Health Services partners with French Embassy

The French Ambassador to Cameroon Christine Robichon has laid the foundation stone of the Nkwen Baptist Centre Maternity project in Bamenda and has inspected ongoing construction works on the ultra modern Out Patient Department of Mbingo Baptist Hopsital noting that upon completion the edifices will be a regional health solution hub for the population of the region and beyond.

                The ceremony that took place on September 28 and 29 cemented a partnership agreement signed between CBCHS and the French embassy in May 2014 aimed at upgrading health facilities of the CBCHS through the construction of nine healthcare infrastructures and the procurement of medical equipment.

Construction works are currently going on in the nine project sites of Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Nkwen Baptist Health Centre, Bafoussam Baptist Health Centre, Kumba Baptist Health Centre, Ekounou Baptist Centre and Baptist Hospital Mutengene.

                In a welcome address, the Director of CBC Health Services, Prof. Tih Pius Muffih expressed gratitude to the French diplomat for choosing to visit their services and thanked the French government through the French Development Agency, AFD for partnering with them in improving on the health care system of Cameroon.

                “We committed ourselves to implementing the projects in accordance with the terms of the agreement. We have kept to that commitment. In line with our vision of providing quality healthcare to all, we hope that when all these projects would have been realized, the CBCHS will be able to provide quality health care to 100.000 more Cameroonians annually”, Prof. Tih added.

                Harping on the partnership between the French Development Agency, C2D and the CBC Health Services, Christine Robichon said that “by providing health care in rural areas to all the population, the CBC HB has helped over one million patients”.

                She also applauded the CBC HB due to the fact that more than ten thousand women were able to give birth in safe conditions. “The quality, availability and compassion of its staff does not need to be proven anymore. This is why supporting CBC-HB is an evidence for France”

                Operating in 6 of cameroon’s 10 region, CBCHS runs 7 hospitals, 29 integrated Health Centers, 50 primary Health Centers, a Pharmaceutical procurement and distribution department, a Training School for Health Personnel, residency training programs in general surgery and internal medicine, Services for People with Disabilities, a comprehensive AIDS care and prevention program and many other health care services.

                 It works in partnership with national and international governmental and nongovernmental health care organizations, and funding agencies in Africa and other parts of the world.