Opening activities of the working and exchange visit, the project Founder, Dr Jean Louis Benea, a Cameroonian neurosurgeon presented the project in Garoua as one that seeks to provide for consumable and permanent equipment during patient consultations and for the benefit of the Garoua General or Referral hospital within the resources provided for in the project.
Dr Kaldadak Koufagued, an Orthopedic Trauma Surgeon opening the discussions of the workshops talked on ballistic trauma with emphasis on the consequences and some remedies of such traumas that for the most part result from the penetration of projectiles within body parts either through accidents at the shooting range, cross fires at battle fronts or from rocket launches. ‘First aid, medical evacuation and in-depth surgical treatments are the various steps of medical care for someone hit by a projectile’, he said, all these with the hope that the individual is able to assume duty as before at least to an acceptable working percentage.
Other presenters included Dr Djoubairou Ben, a neurosurgeon who presented the delicate task of extracting a projectile from the brain and having to recover it with the most minimum risk of suffering side effects, Dr Jaime Marcelo Nkomy Vargas from the National University of Colombia who talked on maxillofacial trauma otherwise known as facial trauma, Dr Gaya Hamza, an orthopedic traumatologist who handled the cases of divers fractures, Dr Bello Figuim a neurosurgeon at the Garoua General hospital who dwelled more on the successes of brain and spine surgeries mostly depending on the time the patient has access to medical attention from the time of the accident. Dr Benea, founder of the project made a presentation on traumatic Cervical injuries classifying them into types 1, 2, and 3 fractures while Colonel Dr. Bassequin Atchuo Jonas Guy, a psychologist and psychotherapist presented the reactions of patients with different temperaments based on the gravity of their traumas.
The benevolent project consisting of a greater part Cameroonian specialist medical doctors based abroad runs through August 5, 2024. The team was received in Yaounde July 26 by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Defence Saïd Kamsouloum on behalf of the defence boss.
