In conflict situations, quality health care is deteriorating.In such cases, health facilities and health workers are targeted by armed men.Health facilities are even closed down and health workers are even killed.Some health workers have lost their lives in providing or offering health services to patients..Some have resigned while others have fled for safety as the conflicting situation is prevailing.while some have done so due to low pay or lack of incentves.
Continuous road blocks by Non State Armed Groups(NSAGs) also render movement difficult for patients to travel to the hospital or health centre.This is the case in Anglophone Cameroon..Some humanitarian organisations that have been working to improve on quality health services have been suspended from carrying out their services. Medicins sans Frontieres(MSF) has been suspended from carrying out her services in North West Cameroon, one of the conflict zones in anglophone Cameroon by the administration.
To improve on the quality of services,
Staff should be motivated through incentives.This will avoid private practice(PP).
Armed groups both state and non state should stop targeting health units and their workers.
Humanitarian organisations should be
allowed to offer their services without any intervention or interference .They work under the humanitarian principles .
They should continue to train health care providers, while building their capacities through training and transfer of knowledge and skills.
Community health workers should be empowered with knowledge and skills to improve on quality health care in their communities.
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CHIFA profile: Chiabi Bernard Ful is Director of Boyo Association for Rural Development (BARUDEV--Cameroon). This is a local NGO found in Boyo district of North Western Cameroon. Our activities are to empower women, protect the sexual and reproductive health for women and girls, and protect the rights of children. We have been training community health workers to follow up patients, pregnant women, sick children and refer them to the hospital. barudev AT yahoo.co.uk
