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Stemming COVID-19: Cameroon strengthens surveillance along borders.
Stemming COVID-19: Cameroon strengthens surveillance along borders.
Cameroon has stepped up her health surveillance machinery to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus pandemic along its eastern borders. This is thanks to protective and medical equipment donated for this purpose, to the authorities in Garoua-Boulai, along the Cameroon-Central African Republic border, by the Organization of Coordination for the Fight against Endemic Diseases in Central African (OCEAC) on May 6, 2020. The donation included protective equipment for medical personnel, thermo-flashes, buckets and solar panels for power supply.
“This donation further galvanizes the efforts already made by the Cameroon government, the municipality of Garoua-Boulai and other partners. We went through the Sub-Division, village by village, and went door to door to raise awareness, so that the Covid-19 would not pass through Garoua-Boulai”, said Diyen Jam Laurence, Assistant Senior Divisional Officer for the Lom-et Djerem Division, East Region of Cameroon.
Coming barely weeks after a statement by the Health Minister in the Central African Republic insinuating that Cameroonians resident in the country pose a health risk to the host population, the donation is thus coming at an opportune moment.
“Garoua Boulai is a sensitive district. Transporters must transit between the two countries. We have put a device that takes the temperature of all those who enter and leave Cameroon. This donation is timely”, said Dr. Sylvain Tcheumaga, head of Garoua Boulai’s health district.
The Organisation of Coordination for the Fight against Endemic Diseases in Central Africa (OCEAC) has as principal goal to facilitate elimination of malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa by providing essential data for vector mosquito risk assessment, surveillance and control.
The gesture of OCEAC in the Garoua-Boulai Sub-Division in Cameroon’s eastern border comes after a similar one on Cameroon’s borders with Equatorial Guinea, Chad and Gabon.
“We have selected six cross-border areas in the CEMAC countries.
Among them, Garoua-Boulai-Beloko border areas. The main objectives of our plan is to support and strengthen cross-border district actions to combat coronavirus”, said Dr Manuel Nso Obiang Ada, Executive Secretary of the Organisation of Coordination for the Fight against Endemic Diseases in Central Africa. “The plan has two components: a first three-month emergency component, covered by CEMAC funding, and a nine-month second phase. The aim is to equip more sophisticated equipment at the cross-border level. We have already received the necessary support from partners to finance this second phase, which will begin in June”, Dr Manuel Nso Obiang Ada added.
Culled from Cameroon Insider