Public Health: Secretary Of State Alim Hayatou Is No More

His Majesty Alim Hayatou, the Secretary of State to the Minister of Public Health in charge of Epidemics and Pandemics died of cardiac arrest at the Yaounde General Hospital at 10: a.m. on April 5, 2021, his Private Secretary  Ousmarou Baba Hassana told Cameroon Tribune.

The general public health family continues to mourn the untimely departure of Alim Hayatou who is Secretary of State in the Ministry of Public Health since joining government on September 19, 1996. When the news of his death was announced in the Ministry, consternation, gloom and melancholy characterised the atmosphere with people talking about the sad event in offices and even in corridors. Alim Hayatou’s office was void of the traditional hustling and bustling by midday. Only a few workers were seen not doing the usual daily activities but involved in travel and burial arrangements. According to the private Secretary, the corpse of Alim Hayatou who is the Lamidou, traditional ruler of Garoua in the North Region of Cameroon had to be flown into the city by helicopter. The gloomy atmosphere in Alim Hayatou’s office was abruptly interrupted by officials of the Judicial Police who did an inventory of the content of the office and sealed it.

His Majesty Alim Hayatou born in 1946, was the Lamidou of Garoua since August 24, 2000.  After his primary and secondary education in Garoua, Alim Hayatou went to the National Treasury School in Paris, France in 1971, graduated from the Yaounde School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM) in 1972, obtained a Masters in Air and Sea Transport in 1987 from the Faculty of Economic Sciences  in the University of Aix in Province.