[Cameroon] MTN Foundation and ASCOVIME renew partnership for proximity health care

The MTN Foundation, first corporate foundation created in Cameroon announces the renewal of its partnership agreement with ASCOVIME (Association of Talents for Better Life) which seeks to reinforce medical assistance provided to the underprivileged.

Roughly 10 000 Cameroonians have benefitted quality proximity health care in the course of around 10 health campaigns organized nationwide under the first year of this partnership. This positive balance sheet has encouraged ASCOVIME and MTN Foundation to renew their partnership for two extra years.    

The second phase of the MTN Foundation-ASCOVIME partnership provides for the organization of about twenty health campaigns all over the national territory. Each of these campaigns will benefit roughly a thousand people who shall FREELY access quality services as follows:

Medical consultations;
Distribution of prescribed medicines;
Surgical operations;
Lab tests;
Sensitization on major endemics as per Government’s health policy.     

The main innovation of this second phase of partnership is the organisation of some health campaigns during major socio-cultural events. To this effect, a health campaign was organized during the 2016 edition of the NGONDO, grand cultural festival of the SAWA people, from 26 to 27 November at the Mbappe Lepe stadium in Douala. Over 500 patients received free treatment by the specialists of ASCOVIME during this two-day-campaign. The MTN Foundation-ASCOVIME Mobile Clinic shall also be deployed from 1 to 3 December 2016, in the town of Foumban, within the framework of the NGUON, cultural festival of the Bamoun people.

MTN Foundation will moreover boost the technical facilities of ASCOVIME, which, in fact, is an ambulatory health centre launched 10 years ago by Georges BWELLE, Cameroonian medical doctor recognized as CNN Hero by the renowned TV station, CNN.

Through this partnership, MTN Foundation intends restoring hope within the benefactor communities, often underprivileged and without easy access to appropriate health care. This engagement is one of the responses by MTN “to the ethical  demand by  Cameroonians, expecting companies to invest beyond their sector of activity, in seeking solutions to the problems faced by the population”, declared  Jean-Melvin Akam, Executive Secretary of the MTN Foundation.

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