BHM Receives YONEFOH Dept., New Coordinator The Youth Network for Health (YONEFOH) Coordination Office in the Southwest Region has been transferred from the Health Services Complex (HSC) to Baptist Hospital Mutengene (BHM) to enable the programme cause greater impact in the lives of young people in that part of the country. The new Coordinator Mr. Chuye Edward from YONEFOH Banso took over on August 26, 2013 from Mrs. Ngum Lauretta who had hitherto coordinated the programme at the HSC. In a chat with the CBCHS Press, Mr. Chuye has thanked the CBC Director of Health Services (DHS) for bestowing trust on him to be able to supervise the activities of YONEFOH in the Southwest Region. He has equally appreciated his predecessor, Mrs. Ngum Lauretta who is the CIACP Coordinator for the great work she has achieved through YONEFOH and acknowledged that he is coming to continue and not begin activities. The CBCHS Press gathered that with the present location of YONEFOH in BHM, apart from outreach activities young people who come to hospital daily will now be able to receive counseling and voluntary counseling and testing in addition to curative treatment which will make the care they receive holistic. “When young people come to the hospital with physical ailments they have other issues; they have relationship issues, emotional issues, behavioural problems, that as YONEFOH when we come in and do counseling for them and guide them to walk through their youthful age they’re able to overcome those issues thereby enhancing their physical health,” the new YONEFOH Coordinator corroborated. In order to maintain proper continuity of the programme in the Southwest, after the official handing over, Mr. Chuye has continued to work closely with the erstwhile Coordinator who is ensuring that he gets to know the school authorities and acquaint himself with work in the region. To this effect, the duo has been together to the CBC National Ministers Conference that recently took place in August in Limbe, Presbyterian Church youth meeting in Mutengene, GBHS Mutengene and GBHS Tiko and to a meeting of Principals of secondary schools in Fako Division where the new coordinator was introduced to some of the stakeholders he will be expected to work with to consolidate and move the programme forward. Mr. Chuye said his plan for the programme will be to work with the administration and other staff of the hospital to increase the number of clubs in schools, reached out with HIV/AIDS plus STIs sensitization and screening to uncovered divisions like Ndian and Kupe Maniguba. One of the strategies to achieve his goals he said will be to organize an in house training for some staff of the BHM Social department, the Chaplaincy and Extended Forum of Care programme who would join him in reaching out to young people in the communities through using crusades and youth camps as entry points to do sensitization and HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing all in a bit to continue to work to bring down the prevalence rate of HIV amongst young people in the Southwest Region recently on a decline. He has therefore appealed to the stakeholders in the region especially school authorities and those of other institutions to continue to collaborate with him as he launches out in his new assignment so as to help fight the HIV pandemic. He appealed to the government to support the YONEFOH strategy of the CBCHS in the fight against HIV/AIDS so as to enable the young people remain HIV-free indicating that this will help in her goal of an emergent Cameroon by 2035.
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 08:31:42 +0000
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