Christopher Jator
28 June 2011
The National Red Cross in collaboration with Government and International Red Cross and Red Crescent Federation has come to the aid of the Deido District Hospital and the community against the cholera infection.
The aim of the endowment, principally of three treatment systems of 25 litres each and the chlorine, was to help the health establishment utilize pure and potable water in all operations where water is necessary. In the absence of potable water – it was underscored – a hospital can become a transmitter agent of the infection.
The beneficiary hospital was chosen in attribution that it registers the highest cholera consultations in Douala, according to National Red Cross President, William Aurelien Eteki Mboumoua.
As a result of this position, the National Red Cross has deployed a hundred out of 300 volunteers working in the Nkam, Mungo and Sanaga Maritime Divisions to the Wouri Division of the Littoral tasked with public education on how to render and consume potable water.
Deido Hospital Director, Dr. Bitang à Mafok Louis Joss, thanked the effort he qualified as timely. The donation ceremony, which took place at the esplanade of the Hospital, was attended, among others, by Mayor Nlengui Malapa of Douala I Sub-Division and Littoral Cholera Focal Point, Antoine Marie Um as well as officials of the host institution.
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