Two Microsoft experts have been sent from Microsoft Skills to Africa on a business volunteer program to assist hospitals in Cameroon Baptist Convention (CBC) to develop a more competitive information system.

For two weeks, Arijit Basu, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft and Ashish Garg, Program Manager II of Microsoft will be in Cameroon as part of the program Microsoft Skills for Africa.

These experts are to set up a computer strategy tailored to the needs of the hospitals of the Cameroon Baptist Convention, whose leaders want to optimize the quality of the management. "We worked manually for several years despite our more than one million patients throughout Cameroon. Though it is not always clear what to promptly account to our partners", says Professor Tih Pius Muffih, Director of hospitals of the Cameroon Baptist Church (CBC).

Thanks to a partner of the CBC, its managers came into contact with Microsoft which was quick to send these two experts in the field.

The latter toured hospitals in the CBC, present in six regions of Cameroon and worked with officials from the Departments. The services rendered by Microsoft in this structure are totally free.

The Cameroon Baptist Convention is also the first Cameroonian organization to benefit from the programme Microsoft Skills for Africa, launched in 2013.

The mission of experts from Microsoft was also to support the technical team of the CBC hospitals and train them.

Apart from medical care, the Cameroon Baptist Convention (CBC) offers several other services such as support for orphans, widows, sensitization around various diseases.

The program Microsoft Skills for Africa is a program designed to allow Microsoft employees to contribute to the improvement of competitiveness in Africa. It aims to train 200,000 Africans by 2016.

100,000 of them should come from the existing workforce that is comprised in large part of the community of Microsoft partners while the other 100,000 will be composed of young graduates. Microsoft intends to place 75% of these learners in partner companies.

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