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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