Barely a week after the warning of the Minister of Public Health on the dangers that loom with the non-respect of COVID-19 barrier measures prescribed by government and the and World Health Organization, medics of the Cameroon Baptist Convention (CBC) health services have raised an alarm of increase in the number of positive cases detected in their establishments.
“I wish to warn all of us that COVID-19 has come back very aggressively. More staff members have been infected in the last two weeks than were infected in the period March to December 2020. This is not good news to us,” partly read the release of Prof. Tih.
Tih in the release recommended that medics in all CBC health services immediately “re-institute the decentralized devotions in large facilities and intensification of the barrier methods of prevention notably the wearing of facemask, washing of hands social/physical distancing and frequent use of hand sanitizers.
“Test all patients for COVID-19 who are admitted in the wards. Test all staff who are not well, whether admitted or not.” Prof Tih ordered in the release while encouraging sensitization of public through outpatient departments on preventive measures of the virus.
The Director of Health Services of the Cameroon Baptist Convention encourages all the facilities to educate the public through the outpatient department on the COVID-19 preventive measures.
Same warning was recently issued by Dr. Manaouda Malachie of Public health in a tweet.
Cameroon has so far recorded over 33 749 positive cases with over 31 362 recoveries, over 523 deaths. There are also over 2 200 active cases of the virus with over 38 on Oxygen, representing 93% of total recovery, 1.6% severe cases, 5% bed occupancy and 1.5% lethality.
By Doh Bertrnad Nua
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