Bamenda Secures Quarter Final Spot at DHS’ Keep Fit Tournament
With a keen sense of the power of sports, the Director of Cameroon Baptist Convention (CBC) Health Services, Prof. Tih Pius, launched a “Keep Fit Tournament” to make sports culture in the organization. In that respect, close to 100 CBC Health Services staff from Bamenda traveled to Bafoussam for pole finale games on Saturday 3, 2022. The tournament which is at the 8th finals stage has since its launch in June 2022 continued to gain momentum.
The Bamenda-Bafoussam dwell spawned lots of euphoria among staff and Administrators from both cities, as the teams pitted in Football, Handball, Volleyball, Table Tennis, Athletics, and Dance sports at Lycée Classique, Bafoussam.
One of the games – male football produced lots of fireworks as Bafoussam with an early lead of 2 goals ended by being vanquished, as their peers of Bamenda did not only equalize but scored 2 more goals to emerge victorious with 4 goals at the final whistle blast.
The songs of victory in the Bamenda camp did only resonate in football but in all disciplines booked for that match day.
That heroic performance automatically secures a comfortable quarter-final spot for Bamenda in, football, handball (males and females), and volleyball. Bamenda now looks forward to the next matches in these disciplines with much zest. Bafoussam came out victorious in competitive dance and table tennis. The duo shared positions in athletics.
Mbingo, Sabga, Nkwen Bamenda, Baoussam, Kumba, Mutengene, Douala and Yaounde are some of the stations competing for the next round. Before attaining this level, polls were set according to geographical locations with facilities in these polls competing against each other in the North West, South West, Littoral, Centre, West, and Adamawa regions.
Mr. Warri Dennis, Deputy Director for Administration and Finance (DDAF), speaking during the games observed that the CBC Health Services’ staff have carried on with the tournament in the same spirit as launched by Prof. Tih Pius, Director of Health Services.
“I am going back to tell the DHS, who is the number one sports man of the organization that his workers are with him and have continued in the pace he set. I have seen the staff express the fighting and fair play spirit on the pitch. We want to stress on the importance of physical exercise and we are here to demonstrate to the public its importance,” he declared.
It is worth noting that, CBC Health Services has over five thousand staff in its health facilities located in nine regions of Cameroon. The tournament has so far proven to be a means for staff to put off stress after all hard work delivered and has enforced physical exercise and blossomed life in staff.
“It is a good opportunity to know colleagues from other stations even while exercising. We are one, if your team wins, fine, and if not, still rejoice because we are all one. Continue to commit to this tournament until the last day” he said.
By and large, there is no doubt that the DHS keep fit tournament will nourish the sporting culture of the CBC Health Services and inspire other corporate bodies to engage in physical exercises for health.