Laguintinie scandal:

Andre Mama Fouda should resign

- Honourable Peter William MANDIO, CPDM MP for Mbam and Inoubou

Hon. Peter William MANDIO

Below is why I am asking Cameroonians to be once more dignified, to make a resolute engagement for our country to re-seek its honour which is now ridiculed. When some Cameroonians asked for the resignation of the phlegmatic Mama Fouda, they were called vulgar apprentice sorcerers. But today the call is growing louder and bigger.  

Series of medical negligence

                Within the space of one month, our country has registered revoltingly serious cases of medical negligence. Leading this black series is a sick baby (a little girl of less than one year old) who was attacked by severe anemia. When taken to the Chantal Biya Foundation, the doctor prescribed blood transfusion.

                The parents went and bought blood at the Yaounde Central Hospital. It should be noted that upon arrival, the baby had undergone an HIV test which was negative. The scandal started a few days later when new blood tests conducted on the child after the criminal transfusion revealed that the baby was seropositive. For their part, the parents tested sero-negative and were hale and hearty as revealed by tests carried out on them on the same day.

                The Director of the hospital later asked the parents to be quiet over the scandal against some financial compensation. The doctors of the crime are still walking free. The blood that came from the bank of the Yaounde Central Hospital was contaminated and more scandalously, it showed a false blood group.

                At the Bonassama – Bonaberi Hospital, a young woman died during a surgical operation. The sudden seizure of electricity and the defective state of the generator of this government hospital snuffed life out of this our compatriot.  

                Then there is the case of NGO KANA Hélène ép. NLATE MFOMO, a young medical doctor, full of life, on whom her own colleagues imposed medical tourism (they tossed her to three different reference hospitals on the same day) before letting her to die at the Douala General Hospital for lack deposit). What horror! The perpetrators of this syndicate of crime have still not been sanctioned.

                I am shocked; I have tears in my eyes when I think of the scandal that occurred on 12 March at the Douala Laquintinie Hospital where the young KOUMATE Monique, aged 31, and pregnant with twins, died because there was no gynecologist, no qualified nurse to make her put to bed. Overwhelmed by the situation, her sisters who were determined to save the lives of the two foetuses that were stuck in her womb became butcher-surgeons suited to the occasion.

                Unbearable! I am accusing Minister MAMA FOUDA of being an accomplice to all these drama because he appoints incompetent and inhumane people; because he refuses to denounce and to sanction these criminals in professional attire, these traders hidden in laboratories, these peddlers of death. I am demanding that Minister André MAMA FOUDA should resign from his functions. I am demanding the sacking of Messrs. DISSONGO Jean II, Director of the Douala Laquintinie Hospital; M. KOKI NDOMBO Paul, Director of the Chantal Biya Foundation; and Mr. BELLE PRISO, Director of the Douala General Hospital; as well as the Director of the Bonassama Hospital.

                In addition, I am demanding that all the doctors and nurses involved in these four cases be arrested. And this will be justice. Finally, it is urgent for the President of the Republic to convoke all senior public health officials in Cameroon. Our security depends on that.