Since 2011 Plan Cameroon with support from Daiichi Sankyo Ranbaxy a private company through Plan Japan started the implementation of a project called the mobile Clinic project in 12health districts in the East, Center and Northwest Regions of Cameroon. According to Plan Cameroon the project came to being in a bid to circumvent geographical access to health care, insufficient health care seeking behaviour and low household income.
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| Toyomasa(left) Fon of Bafut(center) and Kenda Soga(right) upon arrival in the Bafut Palace |
This Wednesday November 20, 2013 Toyomassa Kaneda Senior Director
for Daiichi Sankyo Ranbaxy and Kenta Soga officer charged with fundraising for
plan Japan have come visiting with the intention to assess the level of
implementation of the project they sponsor and to meet various stakeholders to discuss
successes, challenges and the way forward.
As a major partner the Regional delegation of public health
NW is the first stop of the guests and plan Cameroon officials. Nkwain Joseph
focal contact person at the delegation receives the guests and in a brief
exchange saluted the efforts of Plan in making healthcare more accessible to
Cameroonians. He however indicated the need for motor cycles in order to
improve the coverage.
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| Mr Nkwain Joseph Focal Point Contact Person NWRDPH |
At the Bafut Health District service Dr Ajabmoh Henry Njoteh
district chief of service public health is highly elated to welcome the
delegation as he accompanies them to the Akofuguba health center then the
Mughie outreach post where the reception is grandiose.
The women sang to the top of their voices yet the
remembrance of a searh for a health care facility in labour or when sick will
make them cry.
In a note of welcome Akumboh Michael president of the Mughie
Cultural and Development Association reminds Plan of their plight.He said " Country Director for Plan Cameroon, we are very grateful that you have come and seen the misery on the faces of these women and children gathered here. we lack the proper infrastructure to harbor the Out Reach Health Post and toilet facilities"
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| Pupils' in Mughie - Bafut |
At the Bafut Fons
Palace the hounoured guests are treated to a hero’s welcome by the Paramount
Fon of Bafut His Majesty Abumbih III with a lineup of royal dances and an
uncommon guide round the palace.
The reception to Toyomassa Kaneda is satisfactory and to the Paramount Fon of Bafut Plan is always a special visitor
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| Fon Abumbi III poses with Japanese guest |
The Bafut palace event was also an opportunity to hand over
certificates to some eight community health workers from Bafut, Mbengwi,
Fundong and Ndop health districts who distinguished themselves in the support of
the mobile clinic project.
Plan Cameroon it should be recalled started working in Cameroon in 1996 and is present in six regions of the country.