Yaoundé Central Hospital : Closing of the first ethics daysClosing days

The first edition of this symposium held from 27 to 28 April 2023 focused on the theme “ethics as a path to humanity in the hospital”.

Emmanuel Eboua

Learning and satisfaction. They did not regret taking part in the first ethics days at Yaoundé Central Hospital.
“It was a very rich learning event. We urge the central hospital and the scientific committee
of this conference to continue in the same vein, in order to improve our health system. For us students, we are going back very full and knowledgeable. We are planning to attend again next year,” said a participant. For this first day of the symposium, the event was based on a main theme: “ethics as a path to humanity at the Yaounde Central Hospital”. Thus, to facilitate the understanding of the stakes of this colloquium to the various circumstantial
guests, several other sub-themes were unfolded. For example, they were discussed on “the requirement of information in the doctor-patient relationship and the unity of the Beauchamp and Childress principle”, “the principle of respect for the dignity of the patient in the face of poverty”.
To encourage the initiative, the Director of the Yaounde Central Hospital, Prof. Joseph Pierre Fouda,
personally took part in the closing ceremony. Selective in his words, he invited the organising committee to continue in the same vein, in order to be able to come back more innovative at the next edition. At least, “a symposium like this one comes at the right time to show that the diptych caregiver-patient is becoming the triptych caregiver- patient-sick guard. So, the sick guard must now be taken into account”, explained Professor
Roger Mondoue, member of the scientific committee. “I am familiar with the hospital environment. I am a patient. The communications were very rich with philosophers, sociologists and anthropologists. They shed light on contemporary ethics and ethics in the hospital environment,”
said Alfred Ondoa, a patient. Scientific council It should be recalled that the first ethics days at the central hospital is an idea inspired by the ethics café. This initiative is already held once a month in this hospital. It is a question of exchanging ideas on themes related to the problems that affect the improvement of care in our hospitals. The work was organized by a scientific committee headed by Prof. Pierre Ongolo Zogo, Prof. Roger Mondoue and Obam Nicolas Michel; respectively president,
vice-president and rapporteur
of the scientific council of the above mentioned.