JMO Medical Center - A Place of Hope for Cameroon
- The primary goals of this project are to provide a modern standard of technical facilities, to provide a newly designed patient guide and to optimize patient care; Improve efficiencies and therefore deliver more effective service models while executing acute service strategies for children's hospitals. This ensures that the hospital offers the best level of patient care of the highest standard and is unrivaled in Africa in terms of Paediatrics, Pediatric Surgery, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Maternity Services; including very sensitive medical control facilities, routine examinations and clinical service, specialist advice, 24-hour pharmacy, and a permanently friendly, medical service.
- background and history
the "Community Health Needs Assessment"
, led by the University Hospitals in Buea and Yaounde, together with community partners, has shown that malaria and infectious diseases are the most common health problems in the region. In addition, the prevalence of diabetes and high blood pressure is increasing, in contrast to other health problems affecting residents of southwestern and coastal Cameroon.
More than the half (56.2 percent) of the adults surveyed, were diagnosed with at least one chronic disease and 30.8
percent diagnosed with high blood pressure. Diet, obesity, age, illness, stress and nicotine abuse are thought to have contributed to the onset of diabetes.
Additionally, about a quarter of residents in the survey reported at least one major barrier to desired care and more than half reported having difficulty navigating the health care system.