Baby drowns at the Chantal Biya Foundation

A baby has drowned in a bucket in the Chantal Biya Foundation, a state-run hospital in the capital city of Yaounde, Cameroon, according to Mowah Sixtus Mbom, editor-in-chief of the Guardian Post Newspaper.

Mbom, a Cameroonian journalist, reports that the baby is one of the conjoined twins who were recently separated in Tunis, Tunisia.

"The baby drowned in a hospital room. This is unimaginable," writes the senior reporter.

All attempts to verify the story from hospital officials have been futile.

Chantal Biya Foundation was named after the wife of Cameroon's president, Paul Biya Bartholomew Bi Mvondo.

In recent months, several state hospitals in Cameroon have come under severe criticism for poor management and government neglect. Medical doctors abandoned a pregnant woman to die with her set of twins in front of a state-run hospital in Douala, Cameroon.