Improving health of women and infants : Gynecologists to meet in Douala

Medical doctors specialized in women’s and children health as well as gynecologists will be having a one week congress in Douala from the 6-11 of October 2019. The one week medical confab organized by the Inter-African Group of Study, Research and Application on Fertility known by its French acronym as GIERAF, Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians of Cameroon- SOGOC, and the Franco-Cameroonian Association for the Health of the Mother and the Child known as AFCASAME will bring to gather specialists from different parts of the world. The joint conference will feature the 7th congress of GIERAF and the 4th congress of AFCASAME.
While in a press conference in Douala on September 30, 2019, the president of the organizing committee Dr. Gwet Bell Ernestine explained that the one week event will feature workshops that will enable medical doctors upgrade their skills in their different field of specialization. She said they have been some improvement in in-vitro fertilization and it was high time gynecologists in Cameroon get first hand information so as to improve on women and infant health. Dr Gwet Bell Ernestine further disclosed that there are new techniques of doing things such as through the vagina and through the stomach without actually opening up the abdomen to remove the baby.
On his part, the vice-president of SOGOC Dr Jacques Ts...