Renowned Buea-based medical practitioner and owner of the famous Kahwa Sumbele Medical Cabinet, Dr. Issabelle Fese Kahwa Sumbele has died in Buea. She died at her Buea home in the early hours of Wednesday March 30, 2016. She was aged above 70.

Her remains were taken to the Hope Rhema Hospital Mortuary in Kossala, Kumba, pending burial arrangements.

Popularly known in Buea as Dr. Kahwa, the reputed pediatrician and mortician was acknowledged to have saved the lives of sundry parents and children thanks to her unquestionable expertise and professionalism.

Upon retirement from the public service in the early 1990s, she created her private clinic; the Kahwa Sumbele Medical Cabinet at Bomaka quarters in Buea. The street where the clinic was located was later named after her: “Dr. Kahwa Street”.