Peter Mafany Musonge, (Senator), has donated medical equipment worth close to FCFA 10 million to the Buea Regional Hospital Annex and the Limbe Regional Hospital.

On Thursday, December 18, Musonge donated gifts worth over FCFA 4 million to the Buea Regional Hospital Annex. The equipment included among others an oxygen concentrator, a suction machine, an electrical pump, a glucometer, patient monitor, and a syringe pump.

“I’m interested in the health of my population. The government has done a lot for our population; constructing this hospital and providing equipment,” the senator said.

He acknowledged that a lot still needs to be done, promising to give support when it is possible.

“There is still a lot to be done and so as a good citizen, I thought that I should contribute by giving some assistance to the Buea Regional Hospital. I donated some assorted equipment which can be used here, especially for emergency cases,” Musonge said.

South West Regional Delegate for Public Health, Dr. Victor Njie Mbome thanked the senator for the gesture.

Dr. George Enow Orock, Director of the Buea Regional Hospital Annex also expressed thanks to the senator, stating that the hospital is ripe for the status of a University teaching Hospital. He pleaded with the senator to use his political weight to lobby for the creation of a university teaching hospital in Buea.

Musonge, former Prime Minister, accepted the challenge to lobby for the teaching hospital for Buea, together with a referral hospital for Limbe.

Speaking to reporters, Dr. Enow Orock said: “The equipment donated by Senator Peter Mafany Musonge is equipment needed for intensive care and emergency.” He enumerated some of them.

“These are equipment such as monitors, bedside monitors, electric aspirators, oxygen concentrators, a spenanometer and blood glucose control equipment. These are equipment that go for the monitoring, screening and emergency treatment of cases of post-operative patients, patients with stroke, patients with diabetes and hypertension which are very common in our community.”

“That is why I very heartily salute this gesture of His Excellency to our hospital and I call on other kind hearted people of our community to emulate his example. I want to assure that we shall put the equipment to very efficient use.”

Ebung Chrys. Ewang, Director of Premier Medical Sarl (the company that supplied the equipment) gave a one year warranty for the equipment, stating that their equipment is the best. He went on to donate to the hospital one patient monitor.