Sunday 14 May 2017

Minister disagrees with leaders of Doctors’ syndicate, collective punishment served patients!

Today is a very dark day for every Cameroonian! The decade long belief of Cameroonians that the minister of Public Health is least concerned about their health concerns and most concerned about politics has been clearly illustrated in one of the most disastrous and hateful decisions that any minister has ever signed. This decision can be qualified as a hate crime; a crime against the medical corps, against the citizens and against the humanity. In all sincerity, this is a very unpatriotic act and can be likened to the killings of persons by terrorists’ organizations such as Boko Haram and ISIS.
                Through this decision, Mama Fouda has qualified himself as a weapon of mass destruction as opposed to the minister of public health:
                1.            You just transferred the lone Neurologist from the Bamenda Regional Hospital who serves a population of more than 2.000.000 persons in the North West to a Somalomo subdivision with a population of less than 10.000.
                2.            You have also transferred the lone Radiologist from the Bamenda Regional Hospital who serves a population of over 2.000.000 persons to Baleosubdivisional hospital which has not even an x-ray machine.
                3.            You have also transferred one of the few Gynecologists from the busiest maternity center in the NW Region, “PMI Nkwen”, with over 150 deliveries per month to Alou subdivisional hospital that probably conducts less than 10 deliveries per month.
                4.            You have also transferred a Neuro-Surgeon to a hospital center that has not even an operating theater….
                               It might be necessary to remind you of the numerous deaths from stroke which require the collective efforts of radiologists and neurologists alongside other staff for the best care. If you cared about the lives of these masses who look up to you as the minister of health, to champion the cause of improving access to affordable and quality care, you wouldn’t have deprived them of the services of hard to come by specialists physicians in Cameroon. If you had transferred them to areas where they have even the basic tools and a proportionate population to serve, your decision might have had some grounds. Sadly, you have posted them to areas where you are so sure that they will never be able to exercise because of lack of basic materials that highlights your evil intentions.

                Every year, at least 7000 women die in Cameroon because of unsafe deliveries. Gynecologists should be put where they would be able to serve and save lives. You have portrayed yourself as a specialist at sabotaging the efforts of health personnel at improving the health of Cameroonians. As a leader, you must learn to put away personal pride and partisan politics, embrace humility and a sense of goodwill and work for the good of the population rather than sacrificing their lives for political gains. If at the core of every decision you make is not the population, then you are better off somewhere else, probably as a weapon of mass destruction. I truly believe you lack the probity to act as the minister of health in any country on earth.
                This decision exposes the gross incompetence you have exhibited at your job site. It shows the lack of basic leadership skills and competence in the management of scarce human resource. It also shows that you are not aware of the sacred value of life and good health and the need to preserve this at all cost. This decision is an act of collective punishment to Cameroonians who are being served and their lives being saved by these dedicated physicians.
                To address your flagrant exhibition of incompetence, I strongly recommend you annul the said decision involving these personnel and immediately resign as the minister of public health.

Dr. Richard Moses
Public Health Specialist/Epidemiologist

12/05/2017

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