HEALTHCARE IN CAMEROON / CAMEROON HOSPITAL GUIDE

Cameroon Info — Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:55 am

Author: Cameroon Info

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:55 am

HEALTHCARE IN CAMEROON

GENERAL

The Ministry of Public Health is responsible for the maintenance of all public health services. Many missionaries maintain health and leprosy centres. The government is pursuing a vigorous policy of public health improvement, with considerable success in reducing sleeping sickness, leprosy, and other endemic diseases. The demand for all types of health services and equipment is high and constant. The need for modern equipment is especially urgent, with many clinics using outdated equipment, some of which is imported illegally from Nigeria.

Malaria is prevalent in the Bénoué River Valley, the basin of Lake Chad, the coastal region, and the forests of southern Cameroon. A large percentage of the adult population is affected. Other serious water-borne diseases are schistosomiasis and sleeping sickness, which is spread by the tsetse fly. Cameroon lies in the yellow fever endemic zone. In 1999, there were 335 cases of tuberculosis per 100,000 people.

As of 1999, there were an estimated 0.1 physicians and 2.6 hospital beds per 1,000 people. There was one nursing professional per 2,000 people in 1993. As of 1999 total health care expenditure was estimated at 5% of GDP.

DIRECTORY OF HOSPITALS & CLINICS

Clinique Bel-Air
Rue Toyota
BP 15270
Bonapriso
Douala
Tel: +237 342 8284
Fax: +237 342 8913

Clinique la Citadelle
Dla Bld de la République
BP 1027
Douala
Tel: +237 342 4708 / 347 2505

Obstetric-Gynaecology & Pediatric Hospital of Yaounde
BP 4362
Yaounde
Tel: +237 221 2433
Fax: +237 221 2430

Polyclinic Bonanjo
Avenue Charles de Gaulle
P.O. Box 103
Douala
Tel: +237 342 9910
Fax: +237 342 0845

Yaounde Central Hospital
BP 87
Yaounde
Tel: +237 223 4020
Fax: +237 222 2086
Email: hopital_central@yahoo.fr

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