NEWS AND ACTIVITIES of the Department of Military Health
The Director of Military Health
Colonel OBAM JEAN-CLAUDE(MD)
Director of Military Health
Biography
- EDUCATION
- PRIMARY EDUCATION: 1973-1980
-Protestant school of NYABIBETE
-Government Primary School MVENG
- SECONDARY EDUCATION: 1980-1989.
-Governement School DJOUM
– Government High School SANGMELIMA
-Lycée Général LECLERC YAOUNDE
– MONGO BETI College YAOUNDE
- HIGHER EDUCATION: 1989-1998
-1989-1990: University of YAOUNDE (Faculty of Sciences, Physics-Chemistry specialty)
-1990-1998: Medicine at CUSS/ Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of YAOUNDE I.
POST-GRADUATE STUDIES: 2001-2007
-2001-2002: Advanced Training Course in General Surgery at the Second Military Medical University of the People’s Liberation Army of CHINA (SHANGHAI)
-2002-2007: Specialisation in General Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of YAOUNDE I.
- MILITARY TRAINING
-1998-2000: Combined Services Military Academy of CAMEROON.
- CERTIFICATES
- CIVIL CERTIFICATION
-FSLC (CEPE)
-GCE O’ LEVEL (BEPC)
–Probatoire (certificate obtained in Lower sixth in the french sub system of education)
-GCE A’LEVEL (Baccalauréat)
-Doctor of Medicine
-Specialist Diploma in Clinical Sciences (DSSC), specialty : General Surgery
-Advanced Diploma in General Surgery
- MILITARY DIPLOMAS
-EMIA diploma
-Military Paratrooper Certificate
-Military driving licence Light Vehicle and Heavy Duty Truck
- PROFESSIONAL CAREER
- PROMOTIONS:
-April 1998: Integration into the Public Service Service as a general practitioner.
– 1 July 2000: Promotion to the rank of Lieutenant (second class) (Decree No. 2000/308 of 27 October 2000)
-1 July 2000: Promotion to the rank of Captain 1st class (Decree No. 2001/359 of 14 November 2001)
-1st class (Decree No. 2001/359 of 14 November 2001)
-1 January 2007: Promotion to the rank of Major 1st class
– 1 January 2012: Promotion to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel 1st class
-1 January 2017: Promotion to the rank of Colonel 1st class
-1 January 2019: Promotion to the rank of Colonel 2nd class
-1 January 2021: Promotion to the rank of Colonel 2nd class
- ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS
– April 1998: posted as Civil Doctor to supplement the staff at the KRIBI Divisional Hospital.
-13 February 2001: appointed as interim Chief Medical Officer of the Infirmary of the DJOUM Training Center.
-20 September 2002: appointed Head of Technical Surgery Unit of the First Region military Hospital
-16 April 2009: appointed Head of the Department of Specialised Surgery at First Region military Hospital
-19 August 2011: appointed Head of the Department Specialised Surgery A of First Region military Hospital
-28 February 2015: appointed as Chief Medical Officer of the Fourth Region Military Hospital (MAROUA).
-17 February 2016: appointed Head of the Fourth Military Health Region, cumulatively with the functions of Chief Physician of the Fourth Region Military Hospital (MAROUA).
-1 April 2020: appointed Head of Operational Health Division at the Defence Staff
-28 September 2022: appointed Director of Military Health.
- PRIVATE LIFE
- MARITAL STATUS
- Married on monogamous regime
- Father of 6 children
- RELIGION: Protestant
Organisation
The Department of Military Health shall be placed under the authority of a director, an officer who shall be a medical officer appointed by decree of the President of the Republic, assisted if need be, by a deputy, an officer who shall be a military or civilian medical officer appointed by order of the President of the Republic.
The Department of Military Health comprises of:
- the secretariat;
- the Means Bureau;
- the Stores Bureau;
- the Continuous Training Follow-up Bureau;
- the Military Health Research Promotion Bureau;
- the the Data-Processing Service;
- the Procurement and Hospital Medicine Service;
- the Supplies and Maintenance Service;
- the Pandemic Diseases Control Service;
- the Operational Health Division :
is a branch of the Department of Military Health placed under the authority of Chief of Defence Staff (CEMA). The Operational Health Division comprises:
- Means Bureau
- Studies and Inspection Service to which shall be attached:
- the Inspection Bureau;
- the Studies Bureau.
- Operation Service to which shall be attached
- the Training Bureau;
- the Manoeuvre Bureau.
Organisational chart
Missions
The missions of the Department of Military Health
Decree No. 2001/177 of July 25 2001 organizing the Ministry of Defence stipulates that: Article 78: the Department of Military Health shall be in charge :
– developing and promoting military health;
– defining the criteria for fitness to serve in the Armed Forces;
– defining the hygiene and prophylaxy policy in the Armed Forces ;
– defining the treatment policy for armed forces personnel and their families;
– food hygiene;
– prevention policy and the control of pandemic diseases;
– pharmaceutical supplies and specific equipment;
– technical support to units and operational health institutions;
– studies concerning the protection of armed forces personnel against nuclear, chemical and bacteriological war;
– examining health reports;
– defining medical research policy in the Armed Forces;
– following up the technical training of military health personnel;
– administrative and technical supervision of military establishments
– first aid training.
The missions of the Operational Health Division :
Is a branch of the Department of Military Health placed under the authority of CEMA.
Decree No. 2001/177 of July 25, 2001 organizing the Ministry of Defence stipulates that:
Article 55:
Operational Health missions
Under the authority of a head of Division who shall be medical military officer, appointed by decree of the President of the Republic, the Operational Health Division is responsible for :
- conducting studies and making genereal summaries concerning health as well as the setting up and in condition of operational health units ;
- supervising the application of health measures and disease prevention in the Forces;
- ensuring quantity and quality control of food served to personnel as well as their dressing and lodging conditions;
- improving operational health;
- organising health logistics manoeuvres;
- administering emergency medicine in case of public disasters;
- commanding the medical battalion;
- take part in planning operational health administration.
Deployments
Military Health missions
Military Health is under the banner of a Department : the Department of Health is made up of Central and External Services,
At the Central level we have the Operational Health Division, the Training and Referral Practising Military Hospital not yet activated but the First Region Military Hospital of Yaounde is carrying out its functions for the time being and finally the Military Health Research Centre CRESAR),
CRESAR is a military health structure specialised in scientific research. This technical platform of several laboratories carries out research on both animals and human beings. It ensures prevention and seroprevalence surveys among military personnel and their families as well as surveillance of certain pandemics such as human influenza.
N° | DENOMINATIONS | STRUCTURES SANITAIRES | EMPLACEMENTS | |
1
| REGION DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°1 |
SECTEUR DE SANTE MILITAIRE N° 1 | – HOPITAL MILITAIRE DE REGION N°1 (HMR N°1) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du secteur de sante militaire N°1 (CMM SSM N°1) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE de la Région militaire inter-armée N°1 (CMM RMIA1) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE de la Base aérienne 101 (CMM BA101) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE de la Brigade du Quartier Général (CMMM BQG) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE EMIA – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du Centre de Formation Technique des Armées (CMM /CFTA) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE de l’Ecole Supérieure Internationale de Guerre) CMM/ESIG) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE DU Centre de Perfectionnement en Techniques de Maintien de l’Ordre (CMM/CPTMO) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE des Forces Spéciales (CMM/FS) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE Corps National des Sapeurs- Pompiers (CMM/CNSP) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du Groupe d’Escadron N°1 (CMM/GPE N°1) -CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE GENDARMERIE NATIONALE – INFIRMERIE ESCADRON 11 – INFIRMERIE Etat-Major de l’Armée de Terre | Yaoundé Yaoundé Yaoundé Yaoundé Yaoundé Yaoundé Yaoundé Yaoundé Awae Yaoundé Yaoundé Yaoundé Yaoundé Nkoteng Yaoundé |
SECTEUR DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°7 | – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE DU SSM N°7 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du Centre d’Instruction de Djoum – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE Escadron mobile N°711 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 11° Régiment du Génie Militaire Infirmerie du 11° Bataillon des Fusiliers Marins (INF 11°BAFUMAR) – Infirmerie du peleton de Gendarmerie 733 – Infirmerie Base Navale de Kribi (INF /BANK) | Ebolowa Djoum Ambam Sangmelima Campo Niete Kribi | ||
SECTEUR DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°8 | – Centre médical militaire du SSM N°8 – Infirmerie Base Aérienne 102 (INF BA 102) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE Motcheboum – Infirmerie 15° Bataillon d’Infanterie Motorisée (INF 15° BIM) – Infirmerie de l’Escadron 44 – Infirmerie du 16° Bataillon d’Infanterie Motorisée (INF 16° BIM) – Infirmerie Compagnie de Gendarmerie Abong-Mbang – Infirmerie Compagnie de Gendarmerie de Batouri | Bertoua Bertoua Motcheboum Yokadouma Yokadouma Garoua-Boulaï Abong-Mbang Batouri | ||
2 | REGION DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°2 |
SECTEUR DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°2 | – Hôpital Militaire de Région N°2 (HMR N°2) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE DU SSM N°2 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 21° REGEN – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du Régiment d’Artillerie Sol-Air (CMM RASA) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du Régiment d’Artillerie Sol-Sol (CMM RASS) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE Base Aérienne 201 (CMM BA 201) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE Bataillon Blindé de Reconnaissance (CMM BBR) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE Base Navale de Douala (CMM BAND) – Infirmerie Groupe d’Escadron N°2 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE 20° Groupement de Sapeurs- Pompiers (CMM GSP) | Douala Douala Douala Edéa Nkongsamba Douala Douala Douala Douala Douala |
SECTEUR DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°10 | – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du SSM N°10 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE Base Navale de Limbé (CMM BANL) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 22 ° Bataillon d’Infanterie Motorisée – Infirmerie du Btaillon Spécial Amphibie (INF BSA) – Infirmerie 21° BAFUMAR – Infirmerie 22° BAFUMAR – Infirmerie 212° Compagnie d’Infanterie Motorisée (INF 212° CIM) – Infirmerie Escadron 803 Kumba – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE 23° Bataillon d’Infanterie Motorisée | Buea Limbé Mamfé Tiko Ekondo-Titi Mundemba Tombel Kumba Loum | ||
3 | REGION DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°3 |
SECTEUR DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°3 | – Hôpital Militaire de Région militaire N°3 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du SSM N°3 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 31° BIM – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 32° BIM – Infirmerie de la BA 301 | Garoua Garoua Tcholiré Poli Garoua |
SECTEUR DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°5 | – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du SSM N°5 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE de la 31° Brigade d’Infanterie Motorisée (CMM 31° BRIM) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE Centre d’Instruction des Forces Armées Nationales (CMM CIFAN) – Infirmerie du Peloton 1003 – Infirmerie peloton 1004 – Infirmerie Peloton 1024 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du Centre de Perfectionnement et d’Entrainement des Forces Armées Nationales (CMM CPFAN) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 33° BIM – Infirmerie BA 302 – Infirmerie Poloton 1003 | Ngaoundéré Ngaoundéré Ngaoundéré Meiganga Tignère Banyo Ngaoundal Tibati Ngaoundéré Mbankim | ||
4 |
REGION DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°4 |
SECTEUR DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°4 | – Hôpital Militaire de Région Militaire N°4 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du SSM N°4 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du Centre D’Entrainement et d’Aguerrissement en zone Sahélienne (CMM CEAS) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 41° BIM – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 41° Bataillon d’Appui (CMM 41° BA) – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 42° BIM – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 43° BIM – Infirmerie 41° BRIM – Infirmerie Poloton mobile 323 – Infirmerie Groupe d’Escadron N°3 – Infirmerie Cie de Gendarmerie Mokolo | Maroua Maroua Mindif Maltam Kaélé Mora Mayo-Oulo Kousseri Yagoua Maroua Mokolo |
5 |
REGION DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°5 |
SECTEUR DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°6 | – Hôpital Militaire de Région Militaire N°5 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du SSMN°6 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 52° BIM – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 53° BIM | Bamenda Bamenda Kambe Wum |
SECTEUR DE SANTE MILITAIRE N°9 | – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du SSM N°9 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du 51° BIM – Infirmerie Escadron 50&51 – CENTRE MEDICAL MILITAIRE du Bataillon des Troupes Aéroportées (CMM BTAP) – Infirmerie du Centre d’Intruction des Elèves Sous-Officiers (INF CIESO) | Bafoussam Dschang Bafoussam Koutaba Koutaba | ||
