Ngando's Medical Fund
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A senior journalist, Alice Tatah, working with the Cameroon's state broadcaster, CRTV, is reporting that a child living in Bangone, a remote village in the Southwest region of Cameroon is badly in need of your help if you can.
Ngando, 10, suffers from a rare undiagnosed disease that affects his feet, limbs, hands and spine. "I was not born this way," Ngando says.
"I have never consulted a doctor to know what I'm suffering from because my parents can't pay the bills."
He tells the reporter that he would like to go to school like his friends do. But he is bed ridden.
"The only thing I need from you is to assist my parents with money to take me to a doctor."
Health care is Cameroon is not a right but a privilege, citizens complain. According to the Cameroon Medical Council, the country has over 4000 registered medical doctors, but less than 600 are currently working in the country.
The doctor-patient ratio is one doctor for 50,000 patients. And most often, some doctors deny working in remote villages like Ngando's.
Sending Ngando to see the doctor in any city could cost at least FCFA 300,000 (about $700 USD), estimates Dr. Bwelle George, a CNN hero for 2015. But the minimum monthly wage rate in Cameroon is only FCFA 37,000 ($70 USD). Hardly do most families even earn up to that amount, critics say.
Judging from the photos below, the family is among the poorest class of families in the West African nation.
Ngando, 10, suffers from a rare undiagnosed disease that affects his feet, limbs, hands and spine. "I was not born this way," Ngando says.
"I have never consulted a doctor to know what I'm suffering from because my parents can't pay the bills."
He tells the reporter that he would like to go to school like his friends do. But he is bed ridden.
"The only thing I need from you is to assist my parents with money to take me to a doctor."
Health care is Cameroon is not a right but a privilege, citizens complain. According to the Cameroon Medical Council, the country has over 4000 registered medical doctors, but less than 600 are currently working in the country.
The doctor-patient ratio is one doctor for 50,000 patients. And most often, some doctors deny working in remote villages like Ngando's.
Sending Ngando to see the doctor in any city could cost at least FCFA 300,000 (about $700 USD), estimates Dr. Bwelle George, a CNN hero for 2015. But the minimum monthly wage rate in Cameroon is only FCFA 37,000 ($70 USD). Hardly do most families even earn up to that amount, critics say.
Judging from the photos below, the family is among the poorest class of families in the West African nation.
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