Bamenda Regional Hospital : Veritable Health Booster

When the Bamenda Regional Hospital began a multiyear expansion of services several years ago, there was need to beef up the number of departments to 25. Its causes were an ever surging population which has tripled to 2,246,302, a rash of new diseases, a rising cost of medical equipment that have since its creation in 1956 pushed the hospital management to continually seek new ways to put smiles on the faces of patients and caused many to turn back fully healthy and with hopes.
Drastic changes such as infrastructural achievements, significant increase in specialists, quality services, reducing health costs and improving care for people with complex medical problems have become common with the birth of the New Deal. In 2019, there were 12,780 admissions with a staff capacity of close to 500 out of whom 41 are medical doctors. Under the stewardship of President Paul Biya, the philosophy of the New Deal is pointedly deliberate to salvage the North West inhabitants from many a diseases including malaria, HIV/AIDS and a rash of cholera and poliomyelitis as well as alleviate related burdens. More so, successive health campaigns and immunisations in the region that stands out in the country for being the birth place of the governing CPDM were recently crowned with free malaria treatments in children below five years and pregnant women. “The Regional Hospital has deployed staff severally to work with the Regional Delegation of Public Health in providing these services,” Dr. Denis Nsame Nforniwe, Director of the Bamenda Regional Hospital, underscored.
Although a glaring reality is that of patients needing emergency care who have had to face tough times following rising casualties with the current crisis in the region. Across health institutions in the region the problem appears to be shortage of beds in wards, blood and delays experienced by those brought in by ambulance. The Bamenda Regional Hospital has nevertheless braved this situation on the strength of government support by tak...