Board members of the Institute of Medical Research and Study of Medicinal Plants, IMPM, endorsed the report of the scientific committee in Yaounde on July 2,2013.*

After examining the scientific reports of different research carried out on medicinal plants in the country by the scientific committee, board members of the Institute of Medical Research and Study of Medicinal Plants (IMPM) endorsed the report presented to it on Tuesday July 2, 2013. This was during a board meeting chaired by Board Chair, Prof. Rose Leke neé Gana.

According to the Chairman of the scientific committee of IMPM, Dr. Dawa Oumarou, the activity report of IMPM falls within the recommendations of the 14th board of directors meeting of December 29, 2010. "Within this activity report, we have just analysed the path concerning scientific research which consists in analysing scientific results, to see how it has been organised and the results obtained. If we were there at the beginning, we would have analysed what the reports would have brought out. Basically, we looked at the different projects, how they have been organised and the different results obtained," he said.

The report shows that of the 18 research projects billed for execution in 2012, only four were effectively carried out but that ten non-programmed as well as others already begun are on course. It was also disclosed during Tuesday's meeting that other milestones of IMPM in 2012 included the collaboration between IMPM, through its Excellence Centre of the African Network of Drugs and Diagnostic Innovation, with the World Health Organisation on research on traditional medicines as well as its participation in national and international symposiums to better vulgarise research results carried out in the country. To the Director of IMPM, Prof. Jean-Louis Essame Oyono, health is an important aspect in the socio-economic life of a nation and their target for now is combating destroyers like HIV/AIDS and malaria.