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YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Before 6 am, Berline Fangan had already taken her spot astatine a makeshift accepted Chinese medicine session conscionable extracurricular the Bangou sub-divisional infirmary successful the West Region of Cameroon.
The parent of 2 was tense and successful symptom arsenic she explained that her untreated 10-year-old associated occupation was wearing her down. She, similar galore of the different patients who visited the clinic, had been treated by accepted doctors implicit the years, but recovered the prescribed drugs ineffective.
" (The drugs) relieved maine a spot …but 5 minutes aboriginal the symptom came back," the 53-year-old pistillate says. She and hundreds of Cameroonian residents of Bangou and Bamendjou, Upper Plateau division, were waiting for a squad of Chinese specializer medics who arrived successful the portion past week for a two-day escaped consultation and attraction campaign.
Bangou and Bamendjou, with a colonisation of much than 100,000, are surrounded by galore agrarian communities wide dispersed done chaotic terrain, and person lone 2 hospitals.
Villagers are often troubled by wellness problems similar gastritis, typhoid, malaria, cataracts and rheumatism. But astir of them cannot spend aesculapian services.
People came from acold and wide successful the impoverished portion to person escaped aesculapian treatment.
"My member informed maine of the wellness campaign. I near Douala (Cameroon's commercialized hub, much than 200 kilometers distant from Bangou) astatine midnight and arrived present astatine 6:30 successful the morning," says a retired past teacher and begetter of 5 who says helium has been suffering from cramps since 2016.
Martine Kouamo stood looking dejected astatine her 10-year-old lad Christian Djomo, who had been suffering from testicular pain. His duplicate sister had cervix strain, and 1 portion of her assemblage was exhibiting weakness.
The nonstop causes of the ailments were unknown.
"I tried to usage accepted medicine (on Christian) for 3 years, but successful vain. I deliberation Chinese doctors volition assistance due to the fact that they enactment well," Kouamo says.
As the prima roseate implicit Bangou and Bamendjou, a bully fig of patients began taking turns to register, consult and past received attraction from doctors successful assorted departments, who were present arsenic members of the 22nd Chinese aesculapian squad to Cameroon.
Fangan was among the archetypal patients to beryllium consulted.
She was cautiously administered an acupuncture therapy, an past Chinese method of attraction successful which good needles are inserted done the tegument astatine circumstantial points to dainty assorted carnal conditions.
"As I talk to you the symptom is gone," Fangan says aft the treatment. "I consciousness better. In the morning, I couldn't plaything my cervix similar this …but present I tin plaything behind, near and close without problem."
Her boy, Christian, was administered medicine, and hoped it would assistance him recover.
For the archetypal clip since 2016, Justin Kouamou, 71, felt relieved. Before this, helium had visited doctors respective times for an unnamed sickness, but the results were not satisfactory.
"The Chinese doctors inserted needles successful my tegument and it magically alleviated my pain. I americium inactive amazed by the wonders of that treatment," Kouamou says.
More than 1,600 patients were consulted and treated during the campaign, which ran from Oct 29 to 30, says Paul Sikapin, politician of Bangou.
"I asked firmly that specified a run should beryllium organized adjacent year," Sikapin says.
Fabrice Dubila, a aesculapian doc successful Bangou sub-divisional hospital, says Cameroonian and Chinese doctors worked enarthrosis to enarthrosis successful treating patients and offering much-needed aesculapian services during the campaign.
"This is simply a large accidental to larn from our colleagues overseas. So acold we person collaborated connected the diagnosis of immoderate patients and I person besides learned immoderate different diagnostic techniques I tin usage to diagnose immoderate peculiar diseases, notably lipoma and different pathologies. I deliberation it is simply a precise bully accidental to person witnessed acupuncture present successful Bangou," Dubila says.
Theodore Datouo, lawman talker of Cameroon's National Assembly and besides a subordinate of parliament for the Upper Plateau constituency, says the run was a people of affable relations betwixt Cameroon and China.
"China has ever assisted Cameroon successful the wellness assemblage and this clip it is the crook of the West Region to benefit," says Datouo, the main organizer of the campaign.
"This run is for the wellness and well-being of the population, and erstwhile the colonisation is healthy, economical improvement volition follow. We convey China for this practice and the Chinese aesculapian squad successful Cameroon," helium adds.
Guo Jun, caput of the Chinese aesculapian squad successful Cameroon says China has dispatched 22 aesculapian teams and 736 aesculapian professionals to Cameroon since 1975 to diagnose diseases, relieve patients' pains and amended section wellness conditions and aesculapian expertise.
"Today's escaped session is conscionable an example. In the future, we volition further deepen practice and lend to promoting aesculapian assistance projects and improving China-Cameroon friendship," Guo says.
Besides the escaped acupuncture clinic, the Chinese aesculapian team, on with the Beijing Urban Construction Group, donated drugs and protective materials to section hospitals.
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