A refurbished health centre with updated equipment, farm tools, inputs and school books were handed over to the population of Meyomessi on Friday, July 25.

The Circle of Friends of Cameroon (CERAC), a humanitarian association founded by the country’s first Lady, Chantal Biya, has lessened poverty and suffering on the population of Meyomessi in the Dja and Lobo Division of the South Region.

A newly refurbished health centre to take care of the health needs of the population has been officially inaugurated and handed over to them.

Medical equipment for the Meyomessi Heath Centre, Oloundou Saint Esprit, Elom Yemfeck and Essangvout Integrated Health Units of the sub-division as well as life-boosting farm inputs and tools and didactic material for pupils of the locality were also graciously handed over to the population on Friday July 25.

This was in a colourful and heavily-attended ceremony at the Meyomessi ceremonial ground in which Professor Marie Thérèse Abena Ondoa, Minister of Women’s Empower and the Family, personally represented CERAC’s Founding President, Mrs Chantal Biya.

The event was also attended among others by CERAC General Coordinator, Linda Yang and Members of Government and other top-ranking elite of the locality.

Without being exhaustive, the CERAC’s caravan had with them medical equipment comprising delivery and examination tables, hospitalization beds, drugs and laboratory equipment as well as other equipment for the maintenance of the health centre.

Meanwhile, farm inputs and tools given to farmer associations of the locality comprised among others grinding mills, machetes, hoes, watering canes, high-yielding and disease-resistant maize seeds and bags of 20/10 fertilizer.

There were equally special gifts from the First Lady made up of a generator, two computers with printers, a refrigerator and two motorcycles for service continuity in the health centre in case of power outages and for vaccination campaigns.

The joy of the over 10,000 inhabitants of the Sub-division to the First Lady for her unrelenting humanitarian gestures were made loud and clear through banners, songs and speeches that punctuated the ceremony.

Right from the entrance of the ceremonial ground, Mrs Chantal Biya’s special representative was welcomed with carefully drafted words in the Bulu dialect which read, “Bia ve mema Chantal Biya, Nyia Meyong, Abui Akiba amu Beta mimboan,” meaning, “We say thank you to Mama Chantal Biya for her generosity.”

From the Mayor of the 25-councillor Meyomessi Council, Delphine Motaze, to the representative of beneficiary associations, Nlo Obama through the Chief Medical Officer of the Meyomessi Health Centre, Oko Appolinaire Le Grand to Dr Armelle Momo of the Sangmelima Hospital, the CERAC’s gifts will greatly make life worth living for many in the locality.

Oliver Twisting, the speakers who mounted the podium equally prayed the First Lady to think of the creation of a parcours Vita, a radiography centre and a mortuary in Meyomessi, upgrading the current 10-capacity mortuary of the Sangmelima hospital, the least of which was not the upgrading of one of the primary schools in the locality to a Champion schools with quantity and quality teachers to impart knowledge.

Minister Marie Thérèse Abena Ondoa told the attentive and expectant crowd that there is no locality in the country too far from the First Lady through CERAC and that the humanitarian association is leaving nothing to chance to alleviate poverty and suffering.

She enjoined the population to judiciously use the equipment and other material donated to them to live and let others live.

Budding artists from the locality thrilled the CERAC women and guests with soul-searching songs and poems. A guided visit of the rehabilitated health centre ended the ceremony which will forever remain engraved in the minds of the population.