Health

Tambe Tanyi Cameroon Concord Bureau Deutschland

 In the last few months, a new wave of preventive medical consultation has been thriving Cameroon communities in Germany and even beyond. Without doubts Ask Docta has come to set a new trend and to impact the lives of patients around the world, says an active viewer of the program. Reiterating the vision of the program, Dr. Susan Aweh observed that Ask Docta envisages good health for all. Cameroon Concord understands that this revolutionized approach of preventive medical consultation is a healthy opportunity that needs attention. Taking medical diagnosis and knowledge transfer may proof to be worthwhile and commensurate to scale constructive progress, than reacting to patients during consultation while already in a state of sickness says Dr. Emmanuel Ngassa. This is exactly the new approach being implemented and led by Dr. Emmanuel Ngassa and Dr. Susan Aweh, all medical professionals in the federal republic of Germany.

This new attitude is directed to both the educated and the unschooled population capable of understanding spoken Pidgin English and English languages. In reactive consultative medicine, patients go to the health centers/clinics for specific examinations, tests or consultations when they are sick, including: coordinating all tests and arranging for an interpreter, where applicable. In this new dimension, everything is intrinsically priceless. The specialist Doctors breakdown to simple terms a particular disease and diagnostic pattern. The causes, the symptoms, diagnosis and possible preventive solutions and treatment are made available to the audience. With this first class valuable information, even the unschooled ones can follow-up and make prompt decisions accordingly. Why would a medical professional offer such costly medical consultation/service for free? Apart from taking medical diagnosis to the masses, Dr Emmanuel Ngassa says the goal is to raise health awareness on simple issues and make patients acknowledge that sickness isn´t the end of life. “When patients know about their health, they can circumnavigate difficulties and make plausible decisions that may earn them a better bill of health. And together we can collectively achieve good health”

For her part Dr. Susan Aweh hinted that healthcare is integral to economic development opportunity, as only a healthy nation can experience advances in economic productivity. She revealed that by bringing medicine closer to the masses, Ask Docta decomposes the barrier between the noble and high esteemed medical professionals and the patients. This method wins back the patient’s believe in health care and avoids the trap of ignorance and abuse by charlatans and bunkum pastors parading the streets, in the name of miracle makers. The program demystifies witchcraft on explicable medical cases, for example, a family with a genetical issue of stroke or high blood, that could be solved may tend to believe in witchcraft if they are unaware. These medical gurus have developed and are now implementing the preventive medical consultation program Ask Docta being streamed on YouTube, as a platform through which medical consultation is offered. Apart from answering pertinent questions regarding particular illnesses and providing core answers to complicated health issues, an interactive web interface http://www.askdocta.com/  has been put at the disposal of global  medical audience to facilitate interactivity.

While being optimistic Dr. Ngassa was as well realistic in his observation of the limitations imposed on Ask Docta, by the absence of internet access and services in interior regions of target audience. Nonetheless his team has already initiated partnership search for local Radio and television organizations to broadcast Ask Docta in the interiors. Camfomedics, an organization of Cameroon medical doctors in Germany is resourceful to the program. Specialists in different medical domains are respectively brought to Ask Docta to enlighten the audience with this innovative methodology. Discussing and explaining medicine in Pidgin English is not the only challenge facing Ask Docta. The success of Ask Docta relies invariable on the efficient consumption of this new brand conception. The platform Youtube and the web interface are efficient tools presented to us to make competent use of this great medical reserve, so that together we can achieve Good Health For All. So help us Ask Docta!

 

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14.Nov.2014

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The death of a nurse in Mali from Ebola prompted the quarantine on Wednesday of more than 90 people in the West African country’s capital Bamako, as the World Health Organization said the disease had now claimed at least 5,160 lives. The worst outbreak on record has ravaged the impoverished West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea and led to a global watch for cases outside the region. Mali must now trace other people who had contact with the 25-year-old nurse and three others infected, just as an initial group of people linked to its first case completed their 21-day quarantine on Tuesday. Ebola’s maximum incubation period is 21 days. The more than 90 quarantined in Bamako included about 20 United Nations peacekeepers being treated at the capital’s Pasteur Clinic, where the nurse worked, officials said. Police locked down the clinic on Tuesday night. In Sierra Leone, more than 400 health workers at one of its few Ebola treatment centers went on strike over unpaid risk allowances, officials said. Some returned later in the day.

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13.Nov.2014

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Patients suffering from chronic kidney problems are staging a strike presently in Bamenda, capital of the North West Region of Cameroon. In the last two weeks, all dialysis machines at the Bamenda General Hospital have all broken down leading to two deaths . The patients have blocked the finance junction in Bamenda requesting the government to show more concern and save their lives. 

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12.Nov.2014

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The government of Mali confirmed the country’s second case of Ebola late on Tuesday and police deployed outside a clinic in the capital, Bamako, that authorities said had been quarantined. In a statement via Twitter, Mali’s Information Minister  Mamadou Camara said “prevention measures” were being taken, but gave no details on the case. Local officials and diplomats said the new case was unrelated to the first one last month. Mali became the sixth West African country to record a case of Ebola when a two-year-old girl from Guinea died in October. It has not recorded any confirmed cases since then and 108 people linked to the girl were due to complete their 21-day quarantine period on Tuesday. Mali shares an 800 km (500 mile) border with Guinea, which alongside Liberia and Sierra Leone, has been worst affected by an Ebola outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000 people this year. Medical officials and diplomats said Mali’s new Ebola case was a nurse who had been in contact with a man who arrived from Guinea and died in late October at the now locked down Pasteur Clinic.

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12.Nov.2014

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On Saturday, 15 November 2014, members of different medical diaspora groups covering communities from all over the world, relevant representatives and leads from the Royal Medical Colleges and other medical institutions such as the RSM and BMA will gather in London for the Second Annual UK Medical Diaspora conference hosted by the Royal College of Physician under its Global Health programme. According to the organisers, conference participants will to explore opportunities for closer working between diaspora organisations and medical bodies such as the Royal Medical Colleges, on work in the UK and overseas. The conference will provide an opportunity for delegates to not only keep up to date with which organisations are working where but to identify specific avenues for collaboration such as policy, advocacy, fundraising and other areas. The organisers are keen to involve diaspora-focused organisations with innovative projects overseas, to use this great platform on which to showcase their work.  The Cameroon diaspora organisation, Cameroon Forum, has been invited to share knowledge about their innovative African diaspora malaria initiative on malaria prevention and antimalarials uptake awareness under the 'African Diaspora Action Against Malaria' (ADAAM).
Speaking to Cameroon Concord about the conference, the convenor of ADAAM and CEO of Cameroon Forum, Ralph Tanyi, said that within the context of the current global development challenges, it is imperative for the African diaspora in the UK and EU to explore collaboration opportunities to increase the effectiveness and impact of their contribution to strengthening healthcare systems in Africa. He invited all African students in public or global health, diaspora and development, interested in learning more about the principles of collaborative working, volunteering and effective diaspora participation in development to attend this event.  For interested health care professionals and global/public health students, participation at this conference will accrue credit towards their continual professional development (CPD) accredited by the Royal College of Medicine (RSM). Delegates should indicate their interest in CPD credit at the time of registration for the event.  Cameroon Concord will be reporting on the outcome of the conference.

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10.Nov.2014

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The World Health Organization has announced a decline in new Ebola cases and some progress against the disease, with the death toll approaching 5,000 in West Africa. "Case incidence is declining in some districts in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, while steep rises persist in other districts," the United Nations agency said in a statement on Friday. The WHO said that more than 4,960 people have died of Ebola, mostly in the three African countries worst-hit by the outbreak. It added that over 13,200 cases of Ebola have been reported in the West African states. In a separate statement, the UN special envoy on Ebola, David Nabarro, said he was optimistic that the epidemic would end in 2015.

 

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08.Nov.2014

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