Man drugged, robbed at Yaounde Central Hospital

Patrice Tagne, 45, who came from his native Bafoussam to consult a neurologist on Monday, April 4, 2016, was offered a liquid beverage by someone who was going in and out from the consultant doctor’s office, for it was said to “facilitate the examination of lumbar radiology” that was prescribed.

Put in a taxi on Monday morning by one of his younger brothers of Yaounde on his way to Sangmélima, we learn, Patrice Tangne Bafoussam, who had left Bafoussam the previous day before, did not imagine himself being close to death.

The merchant walking on a crutch and went to the Yaounde Central Hospital (YCH) for consultation related to his problems with nerves he said, from Dr. Faustin Yapdzoem. Many patients being in his case, were waiting that day to be consulted by the same neurologist.

Sitting he said, while waiting for his consultation turn, he was approached by a stranger who offered to help him meet “more easily,” the consultant. Patrice Tagne, who is a stranger to the capital Yaounde, is reassured by the man who goes in and out at leisure in the office of the neurologist as he goes from one office of the YCH to another.

“He told me he was on duty at the YCH (night of Sunday to Monday, April 4), and he was preparing to go home. So he took my hospital book and went to hand it to the doctor, “says Patrice Tangne whom the site camer.be went to meet two days later at the University Teaching Hospital of Yaounde (CHU).

He continued: “I entered, and the neurologist who first put the guy out, prescribed me a lumbar radio. I asked this guy, who helped me earlier to see the neurologist, to pay my radio fees, and he said no, let’s go to the cashier together. I even gave him 2,000 CFA francs for all his “due diligence”. Along the way, he told me that I had to drink a drug in water, so that it facilitates my examination of lumbar radiology by moving the x-ray and that the speed in the interpretation of results. “

Patrice says having already gained his trust; he let his “benefactor” caregiver to get water. The latter, he says, brought a bottle of “Tangi” brand filled with water which had whitish suspensions. “Thinking it was the drug that would facilitate my radio review, I did not ask about these suspensions that I saw at the end of the bottle. So I drank, and suddenly, I started to feel my strength leaving me and I sat on a chair next to the old morgue of the YCH. “

Patrice Tagne says that the place is not frequently used. Another source says that behind the former funeral hall of the YCH, there was a large smuggling of drugs some years back.

The patient who was doped/drugged, was found unconscious next to the old morgue by a white lady who was passing by, and who alerted the hospital. Patrice Tagne tells camer.be that he had with him four phones, two androids, and two of simple manufacture.

“I was robbed of two Android phones and 150,000 francs. Only 350 francs remained in my pocket, added to two old technology phones” he added before saying that it is at 6:00 PM upon waking up that he was surprised that was on a drip on a stretcher at the emergency entrance of the YCH.

“He was prescribed a medical protocol to get rid of the poison born of the drug,” said Florence, cousin of Patrice Tagne camer.be met on Wednesday, April 6 at the CHU radiology room where the latter led her cousin. The YCH has become for them “an abomination.”

The young woman said that when Patrice Tagne had regained consciousness before seeing a parent who is also a doctor (probably annoyed) request to suspend her cousin’s treatment in the YCH. A YCH doctor had asked questions to the patient. “What did you eat, what did you drink? “Before exclaiming:” Oh, he was doped. These guys are back; they started again “.

Patrice Tagne, who finally saw a radiologist explain the results of his radio examination, said he had never been subjected to some medication as was the case in where YCH where he nearly lost his life.