By Njodzefe
Nestor
Officials of
the newly created Cameroon Clubfoot Care (CCC) program under the Cameroon
Baptist Convention Health Services, CBCHS, have embarked on a media offensive
to showcase the importance of the program to the wider Cameroonian public
Cameroon Clubfoot Care clinical
physician, Dr. Ndasi Henry, assisted by the program coordinator, Mr. Benuh
Ezekiel and the program officer, Ms Ashiyo Tina have been very present in the
media recently educating Cameroonians on issues surrounding clubfoot and its
complications.
According to the officials,
clubfoot is becoming a serious health concern in our communities as evidenced
by the statistics obtained in the CBCHS Physiotherapy departments.
Clubfoot according to Dr. Ndasi
Henry is a deformity of the feet making them turn inwards and facing each
other, a situation that can be adequately corrected using the ponsetti
technique for children below 2 years.
He has announced that above 2
years, the treatment of clubfoot becomes a bit more complicated requiring
surgery, which might be expensive for many Cameroonian families. For this
reason, the CCC officials have called on the population notably opinion and
community leaders as well as CBR field workers and volunteers to identify
clubfoot cases in the community, children or adults alike and refer them to any
of the four pilot hospitals.
These pilot hospitals include
Banso Baptist Hospital, Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Baptist Hospital Mutengene and
St. Joseph Child and Adult Home, SAJOCAH, Bafut.
Plans are afoot to network with
other hospitals around the country where clubfoot can be treated using the
ponsetti technique, Dr. Ndasi Henry has noted, announcing that in April 2014 a
training will be organized to enable health personnel to identify and refer
clubfoot cases for treatment.
Dr. Ndasi lamented that inexperience of
medical personnel makes correction of clubfoot difficult using the ponsetti.
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