The sudden death of Gashu Martin Biya, out gone Account Clerk
of the Regional Hospital Bamenda at 3 am on Monday morning of June 8 2015 has
left many in the hospital premises shocked including the Director Dr. Kingue Thompson
Njie, as nobody ever knew him as a patient. He was summoned by the Director on
Thursday June 4th to come and
make some clarification on management during his tenure. He came and complained
of malaise and was admitted that Thursday afternoon only to die on Monday
morning.
According to Fung John,the successor, appointed since
December 11, 2014 to take over from Gashu Martin Biya and was only installed
and handed over recently, a team of control mission came from Yaoundé to carry out
normal State control on the morning of Thursday June 4 2015 and when the team
visited his office they asked to call in the out gone Account Clerk to clarify
certain management entries. When late Gashu Martin Biya finally came in after a
long wait, they exchange pleasantry greetings and the head of mission for the
team from Yaounde asked late Gashu Martin Biya to present certain documentations.
His countenance suddenly changed and he moved out without a word and went
straight in to the Directors office. While there he complained of headache and malaise
and the Director carried out vital signs checkup and recommended thorough
checkup and rest. Gahsu was already very weak and could not walk to the lap, so
the Director called in an attendant to bring in a wheel chair to carry Gashu
Martin Biya to the lab. On Friday in spite all medical intervention the
situation kept deteriorating. The control team leader told Fung John to visit
the patient and try to lift his spirit that the control issue is ok and nothing
what to worry about. This was just to coerce him recover from that situation
yet it did not help. On Saturday the
situation got worst and was transferred to the reanimation ward and placed on oxygen
where he finally gave up the ghost on Monday morning without a word. According
to family sources late Gashu Martin Biya in the last 30 years has never gone to
a hospital nor grounded by ill health. He was a sports man that drank only
water and no alcohol and so had no trace of medical problem before this day.
This office according to the new occupant Fung John, that
service has not been controlled since 2007 during the tenure of one Fonge Peter
who handed over to Gashu Martin Biya in 2009. The Control mission wanted to
peruse only accounts from 2012 to 2014 just to ease work for the out gone. From
all indication that office was being managed like a village provision store
with no clear cut records of expenditures. This reporter while gathering
information as to the dead of the out gone account clerk on Tuesday June 9,
some drivers were resisting complying with the new management style which they
have to place a written request for fuel, carwash and repairs. According to them, they are not used to
writing any request all they did was ask for the money and it was disbursed by
the account clerk. One of the drivers, Nforgwei Jones charged with requesting
for fuel and other lubricants, presented a ledger of his various entries with
accompanying signatures of the account clerk saying that was how it was
programmed yet some drivers decided to be dealing with the accountant directly
without any entries in to this ledger.
This incident is happening at a time when the North West
Regional Delegate of public health Dr. Ndiforchu Victor is replaced by Dr.
Matilda Manjong former District Medical Officer for Limbe. She is the first
female regional delegate to man the public health Delegation in the North West
region. She hails from Bafut and married in Bui. Dr. Ndiforchu Victor is going
on retirement in spite the rich experience gathered in his working career.
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