Blood shortages are more and more frequent in Cameroon. Faced with the urgency of this situation, Mélissa Bimé, a young Cameroonian, is working in her own way to find a solution. The young Cameroonian nurse combines useful technology in this field.
She works in a hospital where she witnesses many heartbreaking situations due to preventable conditions, often due to a simple lack of blood bags. “My motivation in my initiative was motivated by the experiences that I live daily in the hospital where I work. Without being able to do anything, I saw a 5 year old girl die of blood deficiency in our hospital. »Explains Mélissa Bimé.
This particularly sad experience became a major motivation which enabled the young woman to found Infiuss in 2016. It is an online blood bank which makes it easy to provide health establishments with blood bags to facilitate transfusions. . With this platform, Mélissa Bimé wants to put an end to one of the crucial problems of hospitals in Cameroon, namely the shortage of blood.
Initially, she focused on raising awareness of the need to donate to save lives. His explanation and that of his team of six people helped improve the habits of the population. The donors regained their self-confidence and started donating blood again.
For example, Infiuss links hospitals with blood banks to hospitals that do not. A means of making information available to the needy. To take advantage of a blood bag, the young woman started a simple and fast process. The hospital in need only has to call the Infiuss services or send a message to its address.
A few years later, the young woman and her structure followed an interesting journey. Today, it is a partner of more than 40 hospitals in Cameroon and is responsible for providing more than 5,000 bags of blood to health centers. The success and important contribution of his initiative were notably recognized by a prize. Infiuss won the USAID Prize for Inclusive Access to Health in 2019.
Mélissa Bimé does not intend to stop there. Infiuss promises to bring clinical research and clinical trials to hundreds of millions of Africans by connecting patients and participants through a direct-to-patient approach and decentralizing trials through a unified platform. The young woman hopes to cross the borders of her country and extend her initiative to all the other countries of the African continent.
Give your opinion and subscribe for more info
—
