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Bernadette Mebe Ngo’o stigmatised in Kondengui after COVID-19 treatment.
Bernadette Mebe Ngo’o stigmatised in Kondengui after COVID-19 treatment.
President Paul Biya’s call for an end to stigmatisation of those infected by Covid-19 in his May 19th speech seems to have fallen on deaf ears.
One of the first t persons to suffer stigmatisation after that momentous speech Bernadette Mebe Ngo’o, wife to former government official and defence minister, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o.
Returning to her detention cell on 21 May at the Kondengui prison after being treated of the pandemic, she was avoided like the plague by fellow inmates, the media has reported.
Sources say she was physically and verbally abused upon arrival at the prison, as she was ordered to observe social distancing from other prisoners, something impossible given the nature and living conditions of inmates.
“She was forced to sleep in the open,” a source is quoted as declaring.
Calling the treatment inhumane, many have criticised the action, saying it poses the problem of the human dignity of detainees in Cameroonian prisons and violates the principle of the presumption of innocence which Bernadette Mebe still enjoys.
Reports say Bernadette was diagnosed of typhoid fever on April 21st 2020. The doctors also said she had presented some COVID-19 symptoms.
She was later rushed to the Yaounde Central Hospital on April 25, and declared COVID-19 positive.
Mrs Mebe was reportedly declared treated two weeks later but was confined for 14 days in the same place where she had received treatment, leaving her exposed to the risk of re-infection.
The explanation given by hospital authorities, reports say, was that they had run out of space to allow her confined in a different place. With her next appointment set for May 22nd hospital staff tried to discourage penitentiary authorities from returning her to the prison to no avail. “They tried to explain to prison guards that you never bring a person previously infected with COVID-19 back to their center of contamination, especially since the Yaounde central prison is known for being an active center of COVID-19,” says a source.