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Baptist hospital dismisses coronavirus treatment claims.
Baptist hospital dismisses coronavirus treatment claims.
The Cameroon Baptist Convention has dismissed reports Coronavirus cases have been diagnosed in its health facilities.
In a statement released by the Head of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services, CBC, Professor Tih Pius Muffih, he said no cases of patients infected by the virus have been recorded nor their health facilities selling treatment as reported on various platforms on the social media. The death of two patients at the Mboppi Baptist Hospital in Douala last weekend had sparked rumours that the deceased presented signs of the virus but Professor Muffih rubbished the claims.
“About 12.30 a.m. on Saturday, February 15, 2020, the Mboppi Baptist Hospital admitted three patients with history of diarrhea and vomiting. Later, that same morning two of them aged 38 to 40 years old (a male and female) went into Hyvolemic shock and died while the doctors were about to refer them to the New Bell District Hospital,” Professor Muffih said.
“One was finally referred to the district hospital for proper management. The DMO was alerted and he immediately came to Mboppi Baptist Hospital with his team and took all necessary precautions in case this could be cholera cases. All the staff which was in contact with those patients was given appropriate preventive care as well as disinfection of the caregivers and the two corpses,” he added. The head of the CBC health service went further to state that a stool sample from the corpses would be analyzed in Yaounde to confirm or dismiss if the patients actually died of cholera.
“The District Medical Officer has taken his responsibilities and only the Minister of Public Health will inform the public whether these were cases of cholera or no. The Information circulating on the social media that Mboppi Baptist Hospital is dispensing medicines for the prevention of coronavirus is false and should not be respected,” he said.
Stringent measures taken
Though no case of the deadly coronavirus has been detected in Cameroon, authorities are leaving no stone unturned with reinforced response health mechanisms put in place at the various public health facilities in the eventuality of suspected cases. At the Nsimalen International Airport in Yaounde, screening machines have been installed to check all passengers flying into Cameroon from China.
Any suspected case will be immediately referred to the Yaounde Central Hospital where measures have equally been taken there with an isolation unit already set up to receive any patient with the virus.
Next door at the Centre Pasteur, doctors confirm all has been put in place to screen and treat any suspected case that may come up as the health facility has also acquired reagents to screen cases.
Culled from Cameroon Insider