FMBS graduates 251 medical doctors

It was a historic day in the lives of 251 medical doctors, dentals surgeons, pharmacist and biomedical specialists graduating from the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Yaoundé I after 7 years of training.

The Minister of Higher Education, Jacques Fame Ndongo and his counterpart of Public Health, Andre Mama Fouda. Both Minister called on the graduates to be hardworking, committed to patients and respect their oath as they go to the field to save lives.

Amongst the graduating class are the first batch of Pharmacists and Dental Surgeons trained in Cameroon. As they took their oath the medical practitioners were reminded to be set to work in hospitals in the rural areas.

The governmental decision to reduce the Doctor to patient ratio especially in rural areas is a welcomed relieve to those who have to travel hundreds of kilometers to meet a medical Doctor in big Towns.

In most rural communities, bad roads and the absence of social amenities like portable water and electricity only worsens the situation in hospital where absolute equipments are generally used, if they exist at all.

The young professionals have been trained to brave these challenges and to cope with the tempers of patients who may despise because of their age.

As the government embanks on its health for all programme, investments in hospital equipment, infrastructure and most especially medication in rural hospitals will be a major step towards meeting millennium development goal on health.