Bonaberi Baptist Hospital Douala

Internal Medicine

This unit has an Internist who offers the following services in the hospital

  • Hepatogastroenterology
  • Rheumatology
  • Pneumology
  • Neurology
  • Infectiology
Gynaecological Services

The Gynaecology Unit has a Gynaecologist who provides the following services:

  • Caesarean sections
  • Myomectomy
  • Hysterectomies (vaginal and abdominal)
  • Cystectomy
  • Other major and minor gynaecological procedures
  • Pelvic exploration ( Ectopic pregnancy, salpingectomy, ovariectomy, annexectomy )
  • Bartholinitis (incision and drainage)
  • Bartholin cystectomy
  • Punch Biopsy
  • Breast mass Excision 
  • Tubal ligation
  • Examination under anaesthesia (penile tear repair, vaginal tear repair, cervical tear repair)
  • Manuela vacuum Aspiration (MVA)

I & D’s (abscess)

Dermatology/Venerology Services
  • T3 of skin
  • T3 of nails
  • Ts of hair
  • Electrocoagulation
  • Electrodesiccation
  • Biopsies
  • Peelings
  • STD
Cardiology
Dentistry
Ophthalmology
Paediatrics

Mr. Nfor Gamngong Emmanuel

Hospital Administrator

Dr. Yemene Zangue

Chief Medical Officer

Mr. Mbanye Lucas

Supervisor of Nursing Services

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Overview

Strategically located at Grand Hanger, beside Michelin, approximately 100 meters from the new flyover in Bonaberi, Douala, in the Littoral Region of Cameroon, BBHD has become a trusted healthcare provider in the community. Affectionately referred to as “Mbingo Annex Bonaberi” by the local population, the hospital is widely regarded as an Anglophone medical facility, serving as a vital healthcare hub, particularly for internally displaced persons from the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon.

BBHD offers 74 inpatient beds, including private ward services, ensuring quality care and comfort for its patients. The hospital is staffed by a dedicated team of 13 General Practitioners and 6 Specialist Doctors, including a Pediatrician, Cardiologist, and two Dentists, alongside 3 Screeners, Midwives, Nurses, and Medical Technicians specializing in Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Laboratory, and Dental care. Operating 24/7, this highly skilled medical team is committed to delivering exceptional patient-centered care.

Since its inception, BBHD has experienced significant growth. What began with 43 staff members has now expanded into a dynamic workforce of 264 professionals, all dedicated to providing comprehensive and holistic healthcare services. The hospital attends to an average of 250 clients per day, offering a broad spectrum of medical, paramedical, social, and technical services that contribute to patients’ overall well-being.

BBHD remains steadfast in its mission to deliver high-quality, compassionate healthcare, ensuring that the Bonaberi community and beyond receive the medical attention they deserve.

Our Services

Antenatal Clinic (ANC)

Services include:

  • Laboratory tests for pregnant women (CBC, urinalysis, Hepatitis B, HIV, syphilis, malaria, and blood group)
  • Vital signs monitoring and blood pressure checks
  • Physical examination and counselling
  • Management of high-risk pregnancies
  • Health education, devotions, and nutrition talks
  • Postpartum consultation for mothers and babies
  • Vaccinations (BCG, Polio Zero at birth; PENTA, ROTA, and NEMO at 6 and 10 weeks)
  • Universal Health Coverage
Women’s Health Program (WHP)

Services include:

  • Breast and cervical cancer screening
  • HPV testing
  • Family planning services
  • Infertility consultations
  • Gynecological consultations and testing for STIs
  • Treatment of some sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as Gonorrhoea, Chlamydia, Mycoplasma Genitalium and Trichomonas Vaginalis 
  • Health talks, sensitization campaigns, and community outreach
  • HPV Vaccination
  • Treatment of genital warts
Ultrasound / Imaging - X-Ray Unit

Services include:

  • Ultrasound: cardiac, vascular, obstetric, abdominal, pelvic, ocular, thyroid, breast, and testicular.
  • Electrocardiography (ECG)
Laboratory

The Laboratory runs 24/24 running diagnostic tests across 9 specialized units:

  • Parasitology: urine/stool analysis, occult blood, H-pylori antigen test
  • Serology: Hepatitis B & C, HIV, syphilis, toxoplasma, typhoid, chlamydia
  • Hematology: CBC, ESR, malaria test, haemoglobin electrophoresis
  • Bacteriology: sputum analysis with Genexpert, culture and sensitivity, bodily fluid analysis (CSF, pleural, ascitic, synovial), semen analysis, ECS/VS
  • Biochemistry: liver, kidney, and metabolic panels, blood sugar, electrolytes and lipid profile
  • Hormonal Testing: PSA, Thyroid function test, FSH, cortisol, estrogen, testosterone, etc.
  • Blood Donation Unit: donor screening, bleeding, and transfusion services
  • Antenatal clinic laboratory for pregnant women
Wound Care and Treatment

The clinic provides:

  • Wound dressing and debridement
  • Suturing, incision and drainage
  • Nail surgery for ingrown nails
  • Foreign body removal
  • Angle brachia index (ABI) test
  • Monofilament test for diabetics
  • Blood sugar test
  • Cone excision
  • Ostomy care
Social Services

The Social Services Department provides psychosocial and emotional support to patients and families. It handles:

  • Gender-Based Violence (GBV) cases
  • Child abuse (physical, emotional, neglect)
  • Domestic violence and abandonment cases
  • Stress management, counseling for depression and anxiety
  • Psychosocial support for addiction cases (drugs, alcohol, sex, etc.)
  • Bill follow-up and advocacy for financially challenged patients
  • Guidance counseling and mediation between patients and administration
Mental Health Services

The hospital receives support vists from Mboppi Baptist hospital who offer the folloing services: The Mental Health Unit manages:

  • Depression, epilepsy, anxiety, psychotic, and sleep disorders
  • Substance abuse, dementia, and developmental delays
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, and adolescent behavioral issues
  • Suicide risk, self-harm, somatic disorders
  • Psychotherapy, drug management, community sensitization, and outreach
Pharmacy

The Pharmacy Department provides:

  • Dispensing of drugs to outpatients and inpatients
  • Compounding and pre-packaging of drugs
  • Counseling and clinical interventions
  • Drug supply to wards and other departments
  • Bill review, inventory control, and requisition
  • Continuous education of pharmacy staff
  • Updates to consultants on drug availability
  • Procurement and inventory control
  • Drug storage
Eye Care Services

The Eye Department provides:

  • General consultations
  • Community eye screening during outreach
  • Refractions and visual field testing
  • Minor surgeries
  • Visits by ophthalmologists and low vision specialists every two months
  • Prescription and provision of ready-made and customized glasses
  • Outpatient consultations
  • Prescription and fitting of lenses
  • Diode laser surgery
  • YAG laser surgery
  • Fundus photography
  • Cataract extraction with intraocular lens placement
  • Pterygium surgery and corneal transplant
  • Glaucoma screening and treatment
Pediatrics

In the paediatric department, we offer the following services:

  • Paediatric consultations
  • Sickle Sell anaemia
  • Treatment of malnourished children
  • Counselling of parents with malnourish children
Physiotherapy and Clubfoot Care Services

Services include:

  • Management of closed fractures and dislocations through casting and rehabilitation
  • Stroke rehabilitation and joint pain management
  • Clubfoot treatment and exercises
  • Rehabilitation and paediatric neurologic care
  • Muscle strengthening and cardio-respiratory therapy
  • Outreach programs, sports injury care, and trauma rehabilitation
  • Geriatric rehabilitation (Services for the elderly)
Emergency Room

The Emergency Department manages:

  • Accident and trauma cases
  • Hypertensive and diabetic crises
  • Respiratory distress and febrile conditions
  • General medical and minor surgical emergencies
  • Administration of injectable medications
Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Services

The CBR program identifies and supports Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) through health, education, livelihood, social, and empowerment programs. Services include:

  • Provision of medical care, rehabilitation, and assistive devices
  • Early childhood, primary, secondary, and higher education support
  • Skill development, self-employment, financial services, and wage opportunities
  • Social inclusion through cultural, recreational, and sports activities
  • Advocacy, political participation, and formation of self-help groups and disability organizations
Nutrition Improvement Program

This program provides dietary counseling, health education, practical food demonstrations, menu planning, and nutrition feed formulation. It focuses on managing malnutrition and promoting healthy living. The department also processes soy powder (BANIPSOYA), assesses nutritional status, and implements preventive strategies to improve community nutrition.

Operating Theatre

The theatre has one operating room and a multipurpose room for all kinds of surgeries, equipped with advanced technology. The operating theatre performs both general and specialized procedures, including:

  • Gynecological and obstetric surgeries
  • Total and partial abdominal hysterectomy
  • Mastectomy
  • Circumcision
  • Cererian session
  • Cystectomy
  • Foreign body removers  
  • Lypomectomy
  • Cauterisation
  • Amputations  

The equipment used in the facility include amongst others the following:

  • Anaesthesia machines
  • Defibrillators
  • Skin graft equipment
  • Operating microscopes for eye surgeries
  • Curtery used to control during surgery
  • Autoclaving machine where sterilisation are done
  • Performs major and minor surgeries  
Inclusive Day Care

The Inclusive Day Care program caters to children with disabilities by providing therapeutic exercises, proper nutrition, play, and basic preschool learning activities. Exercises include correct positioning, stretching, neck control, crawling, rolling, standing with frames or parallel bars, and dancing sports.

Children benefit from regular visits by ophthalmologists, mental health professionals, and nutritionists. The program is run by skilled staff from the Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR), Medical Rehabilitation Therapy (MRT), and Physiotherapy (PT) departments.

Care and Treatment Center
Know Your Numbers (KYN) - NCD program

The KYN program helps patients know their blood pressure, blood sugar, BMI, and waist circumference to assess risks of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. Patients diagnosed are followed up through hypertensive and diabetes clinics visits, education sessions, and community sensitization campaigns.

Diabetic Clinics every second Fridays of the month

Hypertensive clinics every last Fridays of the month

With daily follow up in the unit from Mondays to Saturdays where one on one counselling is done

Statistics Office and PMEL (Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning)

The unit manages:

  • Data collection and tallying
  • Compilation of statistics for both government and CBC Health Services
  • Analysis, reporting, and documentation
  • Distribution of ward forms and registers
  • Archiving of reports and records
HIV & AIDS Care (Care and Treatment Centre)

The Care and Treatment Centre offers:

  • Pre- and post-test counseling
  • ART initiation and dispensation
  • Adherence counseling and home-based ARV distribution
  • Viral load sample collection at both facility and community levels
  • Follow-up of HIV-exposed infants with DBS collection at 6 weeks, 9 months, and up to 24 months
  • Index testing services
  • Health education and community outreach
Tuberculosis (TB) Unit

When a patient is diagnosed in the Laboratory, the patient is sent to this unit for treatment and follow up for a period of six months: the services offered includes:

  • Drug refill on daily basis
  • TB consultations
  • Follow up of treatment
  • Give monthly and quarterly reports to the district, the regional delegation of pubic health as well as to the TB centre in Mbingo
  • The drugs are supplied to us by the government free of charge and patients don’t pay.
  • We work together with Care and Treatment of of HIV since TB is an opportunistic infection of HIV
  • TB diagnoses are done for free.
Chaplaincy Services

The Chaplaincy Department supports the spiritual well-being of staff and patients. Activities include Bible studies, daily devotions at the hospital chapel, prayer sessions with staff, and bedside devotions for patients in the Outpatient Department (OPD), wards, and antenatal clinics.

The chaplains provide counseling for patients with terminal illnesses, end-of-life care, premarital counseling, and marital counseling. They also work closely with doctors to support clients with chronic and terminal conditions. Choirs and gospel groups are often invited to minister in the wards and chapel. The department ensures that spiritual values are integrated into all hospital programs and activities.

Security Services

The Security Department operates 24/24 ensuring the safety of patients, staff, property, and information. Key roles include:

  • Monitoring access to hospital facilities
  • Escorting patients and visitors to the right services
  • Preventing theft and unauthorized removal of hospital property
  • Surveillance through cameras and real-time monitoring
  • Collaboration with public security in Bafoussam
  • Documentation of incoming parcels and dispatches
  • Monthly reporting to CBC Health Services Headquarters
Technical Services

The Technical Services Department manages biomedical engineering, building, and construction needs.

  • Under biomedical services, the team handles installation, maintenance, and repair of hospital equipment.

Under construction and maintenance, the unit manages carpentry, plumbing, painting, and general repairs of hospital infrastructure.

In-Patient Services
Children’s ward)

The children ward Services include:

  • Medication administration and dressing changes
  • Doctor’s rounds and patient monitoring
  • Infection prevention through daily cleaning
  • Patient education and health talks
Maternity

The Maternity Unit offers:

  • Labor and delivery services (intrapartum care)
  • Postpartum care for mothers and newborns
  • Gynaecologist ward rounds and consultations
  • Family planning education and postnatal care
  • Daily health talks on vaccination, breastfeeding, and newborn care
Men and women’s ward
Private Ward

The hospital operates two private wards for patients who prefer a more private and personalized service.

Location & Contact

Bonaberi Baptist Hospital Douala (BBHD) is Located at Grand Hanger, beside Michelin, approximately 100 meters from the new flyover in Bonaberi, Douala, in the Littoral Region of Cameroon

Bonaberi Baptist Health Centre
Douala
Wouri Division
Littoral Region

Tel: Administrator +237 676978217 
Security: +237 672149686
Email:
Website: www.cbchealthservices.org

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