Mother-to-Child Health: Prioritising High Level  Medical Care

Facilitating access to advanced medical services, supporting major research projects and programmes as well as helping women in the face of various pathologies that overwhelm them by providing techniques at maintaining the chain of life are in summary the focal points of the health activities of the First Lady of Cameroon, Chantal Biya.

Her several institutions such as the Endoscopic Surgery and Human Reproduction Research and Application Centre (CHRACERH), the African Synergy Against AIDS and Suffering, the Chantal Biya International Reference Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), and the Chantal Biya Foundation are some testimonies of her devoted efforts geared at improving the health rate of the country especially to the women.

The different health establishments have over the years recorded remarkable progress ranging from reducing infant mortality, improving research results, curbing mother-to-child disease transmission and stabilising the conditions of those living with HIV. CHRACERH focuses on carrying out research activities in terms of endoscopy and human reproduction and provide high level health care in the following areas: endoscopic surgery (surgical laparoscopy and hysteroscopy); human reproduction, including medically assisted procreation IVF (In Vitro Fertilisation), ICSI (intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection), antenatal diagnosis and very high risk pregnancy management. Besides sensitisation and the aforementioned services, the control mechanisms.

Barely two years into existence, some citizens who have used the services of the hospital attest its human effective methods, medically- assisted procreation techniques and the nature of the cost-effective surgeries. CHRACERH in general constitutes an offer of healthcare which could be considered an extension of the activities carried o...