On the occasion of the cancer awareness week organized in Yaoundé,
Cameroon on 15-19 February 2010, UICC and sanofi-aventis handed the prize to
the project selected under the My Child Matters programme. The award ceremony
took place during a cancer awareness week held under the patronage of Her
Excellency the First Lady, Mrs Chantal Biya. Activities included professional
training, free screening for breast, prostate, and cervical cancer, a symposium
on breast cancer, a round table with local medical experts to rise the cancer
on the public and political spectrum.
On 18 February 2010, Mrs Bidoung Mkpatt,
Secretary General of the Chantal Biya Foundation received a check worth
50,000Euros intended to the extension, reorganization, and training of health
professionals in the pediatric hematology-oncology unit of its Mother and Child
Center.
The Chantal Biya Foundation, named after
the First Lady of Cameroon, is dedicated to provide help to the most needy and
to fight any forms of suffering. Through its different centers, the Foundation
has undertaken many activities to achieve its mission.
The Mother and Child Center, created on
23 February 1999 focus exclusively on the promotion of health to children and
their mothers. Equipped with 205 beds, Professor Paul Koki Ndombo and his team
have treated 25,000 children in its Emergeny and outpatient services, consulted
11,500 women, and vaccinated 27350 children and pregnant women in 2009.
The My Child Matters programme is
collaborating with the Center to improve the access to care and treatment. The
Center is already well-recognized on a regional level as a center of excellence
for Cameroonians and residents of neighboring countries such as Tchad,
Equatorial Guinea and Central African Republic.
As part of the programme, the Mother and
Child Center will benefit from mentorship of experts appointed by UICC. Dr Jean
Lemerle from the French-African Pediatric Oncology Group and Dr Claude Moreira,
ex-receipient of the My Child Matters programme will provide guidance to the
team led by Professor Paul Koki Ndombo.
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