BTMAT, COVID 19 and children’s cancer treatment
We receive monthly reports of clinical activity (and costs) at our 4 Cameroonian Baptist hospitals. Whilst in-patient and out-patient numbers at Banso Baptist Hospital, where our children’s cancer treatment programme began, have been severely reduced by civil unrest activity at our main site, Mbingo Baptist Hospital (MBH) remains high. Our purpose designed children’s cancer treatment…
Nina
Nineteen years ago, a little girl was involved in a terrible traffic accident in Kumbo. She lost her mother and younger brother in it. She was brought to Banso Baptist Hospital having sustained fractures of both femurs. Her name was Nina and she was 8 years old. She remembers me working on Children’s ward, and…
BTMAT launch new cancer treatment programme in Douala
Some readers may be aware of the political unrest in Cameroon which amounts to civil war in the North West. The anglophone secessionists have imposed “ghost Mondays” in which all public transport by taxi or motorbike is blocked by armed men. This is severely curtailing our work at Banso Baptist Hospital in the far north-west,…
2017: a year of change, part 2
2017 also marked the opening at Mutengene Baptist Hospital of 2 small wards converted specifically for the treatment of children with cancer. Our tiny (extremely cramped) ward at the main treatment centre, Mbingo Baptist Hospital (MBH) is being extended and transformed at this moment into a purpose designed childrens cancer treatment unit. 7 years ago…
2017: a year of change, part 1
Our senior Cameroonian colleague, Dr Francine Kouya returned from Cape Town to Mbingo Baptist Hospital (MBH) on May 2nd – after 2 years further training in childrens cancer medicine (paediatric oncology) at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town. Francine is now supervisor of paediatric oncology for the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Service (CBCHS). Our lead nurse, Glenn…
“We Care” Parent Hostel, Mbingo Baptist Hospital, N.W.Cameroon
Many people have asked for an update on the “We Care” Parent home. The roof is on and windows and door frames about to be fitted. It was last May whilst in Cameroon that I received an email from the Good News Evangelical Foundation granting £15000 towards the construction of this building. I showed the…
“This sick be not witchcraft. Take pekin for Baptist Hospital”
So say members of our parent groups to the guardian of a child suffering from suspected cancer. On the 18th November we travelled to Ntaba, a large village near the Nigerian border to visit one of our parent groups. The leader, Paul Tanwarong had invited a prominent local village practitioner/bush doctor (described by Paul as…
Retinoblastoma, the eye cancer
On our November 2016 visit to the three hospitals of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Service, Prof Peter Hesseling and I were accompanied by Prof Mariana Kruger, the present head of paediatrics and child health at Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town. Mariana is an expert on the eye cancer, retinoblastoma and is responsible…
The Parent Home at Mbingo Baptist Hospital: an Update
Archive for January 2016 described our vision and design for a hostel (parent home) at Mbingo Baptist Hospital (MBH), our main childhood cancer treatment centre – for mothers or guardians of children with cancer. The plans were approved and costed in 2015 and the foundations of this 16-room building were laid earlier this year –…
HIV/AIDS and Cancer
Looking back over the last 9 years the most enjoyable experiences of my biannual trips to Cameroon have been outreach visits into the bush to find children whom we have treated for cancer. We go armed with a photo of the child, a village name and sometimes the mobile phone number of a parent or…
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