CBC health school sends out 296 para-medics

Some 296 students on 22 August 2015 graduated from 14 programmes of the Baptist Training School for Health Personnel (BTSHP) excluding the ear, nose, throat (ENT) with 3 graduates and 3 nursing practitioners.
    Out of the 302 graduates, the CBC Health Services shall employ all except one. Yet, the Director of Health Services (DHS), Prof. Tih Pius Muffih said, ‘It is still not enough’ for the 5 hospitals, 33 health centres, over 50 primary health centres and the numerous programmes that constitute the CBC Health Services.
    This explains why the school undertook the challenge to train more students this year. Prof. Tih was particularly impressed with the return of midwifery training, which according to him, is the need of the time to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of putting an end to infant and maternal mortality at child birth.
    Although only six midwives graduated this time (5 females and 1 male), the DHS charged them to go out and work like 60 midwives put together.
    The DHS used the occasion to appreciate the support and collaboration of the Ministry of Health, the Bui administration and the parents and students for choosing BTSHP. He cautioned the audience about the danger of non-communicable diseases like hypertension that tops the list of diseases bringing people to the hospital after malaria.
    Taking the rostrum, First Deputy Mayor of Kumbo as well as the Assistant Divisional Officer (ADO) for Kumbo congratulated BTSHP Banso for assisting government in training clinical personnel in 14 specialized nursing programmes. The municipal and government officials equally appreciated the CBC Health Services for employing the large number of graduates representing families.
    A representative of the Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network (EPN), James James Mireri brought greetings from the EPN Secretariat in Kenya. James lauded the BTSHP for constantly updating EPN on the progress and activities of the 7 pharmacy technicians they sponsored last year and 6 this year. He encouraged the graduates that ‘Life is a promise, fulfil it’.
    Dr. Ing Stanley Mungwe, Chairman and CEO of IT Kamer Ltd thrilled the audience in an academic discourse entitled, ‘Understanding the Time – the use of Information Technology. The motivational speaker and IT expert challenged the CBC Health Services to embrace IT and rip the benefits of speedy services. He lamented government’s misuse of huge amounts of money not only in purchasing luxurious cars but also in paying IT software abroad that can be built here in Cameroon.
    For their part, the graduating para-medics through their prefect appreciated the school authorities for moulding them from novices into professionals. They outlined challenges of inadequate staff and infrastructure at the school and appealed on the CBC authorities to do something in order to create a better learning environment for those coming after them.
    A spice of the BTSHP graduation was the presentation of foreign degrees and diplomas obtained by some CBC Health Services leaders. Kangong Joce, Fabombi Dickson and Gabe Victorine presented their MBA degrees from Germany while Pastor Bambo Denis, Ndosak George and Warri Denis presented diplomas they obtained in a short management course they undertook in Ghana recently.