2024-07-03 00:19:57
A grasping physician is extra harmful than an armed soldier in a state of psychological melancholy. Charging for the providers of medical doctors from the diaspora who come to alleviate the populations of city areas in Cameroon is one act too many who testifies to the greed of the president of the nationwide order of medical doctors, or just of medical doctors in Cameroon. Did Dr. Rodolphe Fonkoua confuse the order of medical doctors with the administration of his personal clinic the place with full impunity he violates the moral guidelines written in black and white within the order’s doc?
« A observe or clinic might solely stay open within the absence of its proprietor if the latter has been often changed.” could be learn within the reference handbook of medical doctors in Cameroon. The Idimed clinic has a popularity for encouraging medical doctors to interact in such a observe, diverting sufferers from public hospitals to deliver them again to it.
Talking on October 2 to the heads of well being amenities from the second to the sixth class, the Minister of Well being Manaouda Malachie expressed concern that many sufferers admitted to public hospitals had been intentionally redirected to personal hospitals:
“Certainly, a number of circumstances are recognized in public well being amenities and referred to personal well being amenities by state personnel to obtain care and providers which can be however out there in public well being amenities.” he stated earlier than denouncing the dangers run by sufferers as a result of internship medical doctors “Some well being professionals, fairly often nonetheless in coaching or within the means of perfecting their artwork, enterprise to take sufferers to personal well being amenities with doubtful technical tools.” denounced the minister.
The Idimed clinic to today is the breeding floor for the trafficking of sufferers from public hospitals. In 2020, Dr. Rodolphe Fonkoua, Dr. Binam Bikoi Charles, a neurosurgeon and Nfouapon Ewane Hervé, anesthesiologist and resuscitator, had been prosecuted on the Douala-Bonanjo courtroom of first occasion. They had been accused of complicity in involuntary manslaughter, Dr. Fonkoua for his half accused of getting transferred his clinic to individuals who acted on a sick and subsequently lifeless BIR soldier, of getting diverted this affected person who was however despatched to Laquintinie Hospital in Douala in accordance with the switch doc of the Cameroonian military. Does the presidency of the nationwide order of physicians confer immunity? Six months after his election, Dr. Fonkoua’s document raises issues amongst some medical doctors in regards to the survival of the order