Doctors Without Borders closes bases in Kumba and Mamfe
The medical non-governmental organization, Doctors without Borders (DWB) has via a press release announced the shut down of its project bases in the Meme and Manyu divisions in the South West region of Cameroon.
This decision which will take effect as from August 1 2022, follows the detention of four DWB colleagues since December 2021 and January 2022. Arrested 7 months ago by security officials, two of the four were released conditionally in May 2022 but two others are still in detention and set to face trial.
The closure of these project bases will thus end the contract of several workers but a small team will be maintained in the South West region to support the release and resolution of these cases.
Doctors without borders had first announced an indefinite suspension of its activities in the South West on March 29 2022.
Before now, the NGO had withdrawn it’s medical teams from the North West region after an 8 month suspension by government accusing them of supporting local non-state armed groups.
Before their suspension in the North West region on December 8 2020, DWB had treated 180 survivors of sexual violence, provided 1.725 mental health consultations, performed 3.272 surgeries and transported 4.407 patients by ambulance and amongst them were over 1000 women in labour.
