Life Abundant Primary (LAP) Health Care Counts Gains, Challenges & Way forward
The top management team of the LAP program of the CBC Health Services has evaluated the challenges, and achievements and hashed new plans for LAP. This was during a meeting held at the Baptist Centre Nkwen on November 3, 2023, which was attended by the management team in the presence of the CBC Health Services Deputy Director for Administration and Finance (DDAF), Mr. Warri Denis, and other Administrators.
In an interview with the Communication Unit, Mr. Njeni George the LAP Administrator, submitted “Today we had our LAP management meeting. The intention was to look at the planned activities for 2021 to 2023 and their implementation. We were also looking at LAP in the Future and the activities we intend to accomplish in the years ahead. There is a blueprint we are looking at and trusting God we will meet with the services.
We also looked at the challenges we have been facing especially with the crisis in the Northwest and Southwest regions which affected our activities. We are so much impressed with what has been accomplished so far despite the challenges.
The LAP Administrator also explained that in the LAP Strategic Plan, the program is currently covering 5 regions of the country and the new plan involves expanding LAP Services to all the Regions of the Country especially as the CBC Health Services now offers services in the Northern part of Cameroon.
There are plans to improve on personnel as well as infrastructural development and improvement. LAP has been funded mostly by Bread for the World, an International Organisation but we cannot continue to depend only on the organization for funding. So, we are envisioning other areas we can turn to for funds so that our services can expand” he explained.
The Deputy Director for Administration and Finance (DDAF) applauded the efforts of the LAP staff. “I want to use this opportunity to congratulate the LAP staff for the wonderful work they have been doing serving the rural communities and meeting the CBC Health Services mission of providing quality health services to all. Primary Health Services (PHS) remains at the heart of the CBC Health Services. We recognize the efforts they have made in meeting the targets we had set for them and also recognize the challenges they have gone through to be able to provide quality services to the population in the Field. The Management of the CBC Health Services wants to assure them of continued support as they continue to serve the community.” He added.
Primary Health Care is essentially giving healthcare to the people in the rural communities. The CBC Health Services – PHC services offer education through sensitization on healthy living to avoid sickness, personal hygiene to households, and community hygiene to ensure disease prevention. They also assist in the rehabilitation and treatment of cases that have been sent home, offer basic treatment to patients in the communities, and refer others to health centers and hospitals for proper treatment.
Primary health care is the foundation of universal health coverage. The WHO’s vision of having universal health coverage can only be achieved if those in hard-to-reach communities have access to essential health services. This is what the CBC Health Services LAP program has been offering the Cameroonian population with over 54 primary healthcare centers in 5 Regions of the Country.
It is also thanks to the LAP program that CBC Health Services is able to fulfill its mission of providing quality healthcare services to all. No doubt, she has been considered the best provider of health services to Cameroonians after the government.
The LAP is the forerunner of CBC Health Services Health Services in Cameroon. Most of our integrated Health Centers and hospitals started under the LAP program.
