Cameroon Health and Education Fund

In 2023 chef supported a number of programs administered by the Cameroon baptist convention Health services (cbchs) which provide medical and humanitarian assistance as well as providing medical equipment and supplies to improve medical facilities. Cbchs provides "fee for service" care to all patients who need it, but often patients are not able to pay these low fees because of poverty. There is no government support for the cost of Health care and no insurance coverage. Chef funds subsidize the cost of care that saves many lives and prevents or corrects serious disabling conditions. Programs: women's Health program to support cervical cancer screening & treatment. Advanced life support in obstetrics (also) training to reduce maternal mortality. Support the internal medicine and surgery residency training of african physicians at mbingo baptist hospital. Cbchs supports the following: 1. Dr brown benevolent Fund at cbchs/mbingo baptist hospital (mbh), the dr alexander baba guan-nulla benovolent Fund at banso baptist hospital (bbh), and the meskine baptist hospital indigent patient Fund: these funds provide financial assistance for people who are unable to afford urgently needed medical or surgical care at mbh, bbh, and meskine bh. 2. Internally displaced persons project: the long-standing violence in Cameroon has had a disastrous effect on the Cameroon baptist convention Health services facilities and staff. The money raised for this project helps pay for medical care, food clothing and shelter for needy cbchs staff members. 3. Life abundant primary Health care program: (lap) training for community mother child Health aids to provide antenatal care and low risk deliveries in remote villages. 4. Construction of an expanded operating room at banso baptist hospital will result in better surgical care for patients needing surgery. 5. Radiotherapy unit at mbingo baptist hospital: the numbers of cancer cases is increasing and radiotherapy (rt) is often not available in Cameroon and if it is the cost is unaffordable. Chef has received donations to set up a (rt) is often not available in Cameroon and if it is, the cost is unaffordable. Chef has received donations to setup a (rt) unit that will make curative or palliative rt available to more cancer patients. 6. Primary school Education at mbingo 7. Treatment of malnutrition at mbh. 8. Payment for essential drugs. 9. Construction of a trauma center at baptist hospital mutewagene.

Scholarships approved by the chef board enabled 7 cameroonians to receive medical training to improve services provided by cbchs.