Denial
In reaction, the director of the Yaoundé Central Hospital, Professor Pierre Joseph Fouda, recognizes that the 22-year-old victim was received in the emergency room on September 10, 2021 “for a penetrating wound in the left lumbar fossa”.
“Which required an operation to repair the internal damage,” he continues.
According to the director of the hospital, “the patient left against medical advice despite all the explanations of the risks involved.”
“The patient returned four days later with signs of a severe abdominal infection. He was operated. The operative findings were a sore of the intestine and stool in the abdominal cavity. Doctors cut the affected intestine and reattached it to the skin, but “the patient died in a picture of generalized sepsis,” he concludes.
For this affair that tarnishes the image of the greatest hospital from the Cameroonian capital, the Minister of Public Health Manaouda.
Malachi ordered an investigation.
In a country where morgues hospitals are regularly accused of trafficking in human organs, the Yaoundé central hospital is already at the center of all suspicion.
Armand Ougock, permanent correspondent for Koaci in Cameroon.
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