CBM’s Global Ear, Hearing Advisor Visits CBC Health Services
By Lohshie Eugene Velon CBM’s Global Advisor for Ear and Hearing Care has paid a 10-day working visit to the CBC Health Services. Dr. Diego Hernandez Santana visited the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) facilities of the organization to carry out a technical assessment, advice, and orient prospects of Ear and Hearing Care (EHC) services […]
ALSO Program: Setting the Pace in the Reduction of Maternal Deaths
By George Anguh The Medical Dictionary sees Obstetrics as the branch of medicine that deals with the care of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the recuperative period following delivery. This medical specialty requires professionalism in clinical practice. Consequently, the CBC Health Services has put a specialized program in place to handle obstetric concerns within and […]
Engaging Youths in Overcoming the NCDs Burden
By Nadege Ngeh CBC Health Services’ Non Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control program (NCD-PCP) is strengthening steps in overcoming NCDs by targeting youths as a means of sustaining efforts to curtail the spread of NCDS. As the leaders of today and the future, the adolescent population is the largest the world has ever seen. Apparently, […]
NW Education Stakeholders seek Better Ways of Implementing IE
By Fru Rita Ngum Education stakeholders in the Northwest Region have brainstormed on polices that will enhance the implementation of Inclusive Education (IE) in the region. They made the proposed polices at the end of a two day workshop organized by the Regional Delegations of Secondary and Basic Education in collaboration with Australian Aid through […]
SEEPD Approves Ten C-BAN Groups in the Northwest Region
By Fru Rita Ngum Ten Community Based Advanced Njangi (C-BAN) groups initiated by the Socio-Economic Empowerment of Persons with Disability (SEEPD) program in four Divisions of the Northwest Region have been approved and operationalised by the program. This was during a visit by the SEEPD Program team to the C-BAN groups in Weh, Wum, Kumbo, […]
CCCP Provides Technical Assistance to Nylon District Hospital Douala
By Fru Rita Ngum The CBC Health Services and the Nylon District Hospital in Douala have agreed to collaborate in the days ahead in ensuring the effective functioning of the Ponseti Clubfoot Clinic donated by Mercy Ships to the Cameroon Government this year. This was the outcome of a meeting held at the hospital recently […]
Physical Exercise is My New Lifestyle – Adeline Lumsi
By Nadege Ngeh “I’ve learned to control my anger. Physical exercise is my new lifestyle, and I eat less salt and sugar,” says Adeline Lumsi, a beneficiary of the Know Your Numbers (KYN) program KYN is one of CBC Health Services’ strategies in the fight against NCDs in Cameroon. Special corners are set up in […]
Breaking the Sickle Cell Cycle, Walk for Hope
By Mufuh Ramiro Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA) is a heritable genetic and sometimes fatal disease that causes red blood cell disorder. The red blood cell loses its ability to change to forms suitable to navigate narrow spaces, resulting in shortage of oxygen to affected areas. SCA is common in malaria endemic areas like Sub-Saharan Africa, […]
BIHS Graduates Pioneer Batch of Specialist Doctors
By Peter Tah & Akem Olives June 23, 2018 went down in history as the date that the Baptist Institute of Health Sciences (BIHS) graduated her first batch of specialist doctors. The three specialist doctors; two from the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS) and one from the Christian Internal Medicine Specialization (CIMS) programs […]
CBC Health Services Launches Physical Exercise Program Against NCDs
By Njoka Divine & Mufuh Ramiro Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services has launched a Physical Exercise Program to fight against the galloping rate of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Cameroon. The CBC Health Services’ Central Administration Physical Exercise Program was launched on September 13, 2018 at the Baptist Center in Bamenda as part of activities to […]
CBC Health Services Joins Global Efforts to Fight NCDs
By Nadege Ngeh Edited by Mufuh Ramiro On September 27, 2018, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly is staging the third High-level Meeting on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This meeting will embark on a comprehensive review of the global and national progress achieved in putting measures in place that protect people […]