Mbingo Baptist Hospital

Mbingo Baptist Hospital graduates two Doctors from its specialization programmes
By Njodzefe Nestor
The Christian Internal Medicine Specialisation, CIMS, and the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons PAACS have graduated two doctors from their Mbingo Baptist Hospital Specialisation programs.
    Dr. Ngoe Anthony Mesoah graduating from the PAACS program and Dr. Kamdem Jacob graduating from the CIMS were awarded their end of course Diplomas, June 14 at the Mbingo Baptist Hospital Chapel, Boyo Division in a highly attended and colourful graduation ceremony.
    In a commencement address Dr. Sherry Wren, Professor of Surgery at the Stanford University, California, USA and one of the tutors of the laureates said the graduation of the two doctors was a worthwhile achievement for Africa in general and Cameroon in particular.
She was upbeat that education and training such as the one which the duo had undertaken was a panacea for the recurrent health crisis in Africa

    Dr. Sherry encouraged the laureates to work for the betterment of the community observing that Medicine is a noble profession when it is practiced without greed.
    Taking the queue and in a presentation of charge to the graduates, Dr. Wefuan Jonah, Board Chairman of the CBC Health Services urged them to provide specialist care to the patients and to share the knowledge they had acquired with their colleagues.
    Above all, he encouraged them to be smart and accurate in their service to mankind and to pray for and with their patients.
    In the same light the Director of the CBC Health Services, Prof. Tih Pius challenged the laureats to use the knowledge they had gained during the training to serve the community.
    CIMS which was graduating the third batch is currently headed by Dr. Denis Palmer while PAACS graduating the fourth batch is manned by Dr. James Brown.
    The Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons, PAACS, is a strategic response to the need for surgeons in Africa. It is a non-denominational, multinational service organization training African physicians to become general surgeons who are willing to remain in Africa to meet that need.
    Training is offered at several well-established evangelical mission hospitals in Africa, under the direction of experienced, board certified missionary surgeons with Mbingo Baptist Hospital as one of them.
    Since its inception in 1996, PAACS has grown to 9 programs at 9 hospitals. 36 doctors have graduated from the program working in various parts of Africa or are fellows in the pediatric surgical program.
    The Christian Internal Medicine Specialization, CIMS, Program on the other hand is an Internal Medicine residency program organized under the auspices of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services to provide quality post-graduate medical education in a Christian setting. 
    CIMS seeks to train committed Christian physicians who will assist in the provision of quality, specialized care with genuine compassion to all who need it as an expression of Christian love.  The vision of the program is to have well-trained physicians who desire to continue the healing ministry of Jesus.
The CIMS program started in 2008 and each resident completes four years prior to graduation.