“Our legal system is more or less a Portuguese Parliament”

-Barrister Awutah, President of Meme Lawyers Association

Barrister Awutah Phillip Atubah was born on the 8^th of March 1971 in Kumba and went to Primary school in Government School Ajei in the North West Region. From there he went to LCC; Longla Comprehensive College Mankon in Bamenda. After his GCE Ordinary level, he went to Government High School Mbengwi where he had his GCE A levels before moving to the University of Yaounde where he graduated with a first degree in Law. From there he moved on to Abuja where he obtained a BL (Barrister at Law), a Diploma from the Nigerian Law School. Barrister Awutah is also of the first badge of the Yaounde University II.

Barrister Awutah

 As a student of the University of Yaounde, he was in year two and it’s when he and his mates passed to year three that they were shifted to the newly created University of Yaounde II at Soa in 2005. This move was made because the only Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences at the time was at the Soa Campus. The learned Barrister therefore constitutes part of that group of students who experienced the nightmare of staying in Yaounde and studying at Soa considering that the roads at the time were dusty during the dry season and muddy during the rainy seasons and that there was no organised transport system for university students shuttling between Yaounde and Soa. He was interviewed by Francis Ekongang Nzante Lenjo and his revelations are in fact scintillating. 

Read on

As a student at the Nigerian Law School how was your experience?

The first thing I would want to say is that I got to Nigeria and discovered that Nigeria is ahead of us economically and otherwise. Another thing that I learnt about the country is that academically they are advanced because they have good schools that are well equipped. I also took note of the way Abuja was planned and was so impressed. The Law School we attended was a new Campus not far from Abuja. Despite our positive impressions, one of the problems we had was the high cost of living. To have food in Nigeria is not that easy. 

With regards to the practice of law how can you sum up your experiences there? 

I noticed that in Nigeria there is a culture of Law firms which is still very foreign to us here. Here everybody goes for sole proprietorship but in Nigeria the majority of people go for partnership. The reason why there is efficiency is in accordance with the saying that two heads do a better job. So when returning to Cameroon, I had in mind the creation of a Law firm. That is why in my office we are made of four lawyers and we are in partnership.

What are you doing to improve upon Law Practice in Cameroon?

I am at the head of a law firm in Kumba. I created the Amumba Law firm in 2007. From 2007 I was alone and I have so far trained a couple of lawyers. Most of the lawyers I have trained now practice on their own. Presently I have trainied two lawyers who are now in partnership with me and we have done our best to keep to the standards. It is my wish that in the nearest future I am going to build a permanent structure that’s going to house Amumba Law Firm. The dream I have is a Law Firm like that of Rotimi Williams in Nigeria. I visited this firm and was so impressed and marveled by what I saw there. A law firm with a library, a Conference Room, waiting rooms, dressing rooms among other facilities. In Cameroon, I visited the Nico Halle Law Firm and was impressed. This is what I look forward to having.

What has MELA specifically and Anglophone lawyers in general contributed to the present importance given to the Lawyer in Cameroon?

Cameroon is a Bi-Jural Nation which is a habit of the Common Law and the Civil Law and as a result of that we have a problem because when we were in the university we had joint training at the level of the first year but when we got into the second year, the Common Law students went their own way while the Civil Law students went their own way but when you go to the field you realise you are forced to battle between the two systems because being an advocate of the Supreme Court of Cameroon, the national territory is what constitutes your jurisdiction. So you have to go east of the Mungo in order to do cases just like they have to come west of the Mungo which is in the Common Law Jurisdiction in order to do cases. That has become a problem to most of the practitioners and the Government came up with the issue of harmonizing the two laws but it has not been easy to go about it. For now we have harmonized the Criminal Procedure Code. At least we have a Common Penal Code but most of the other issues like the Civil Procedure is still to be harmonized. Family Law is still to be harmonized while Company and Commercial Law have been harmonized under OHADA but what we want people to know is that the essence of any law making body is to ensure that justice through these laws is not only done but is seen to have been done.

I have realised that in the Civil Law Jurisdiction there is a lot of injustice going on not because of their own making but because of the laws that they implement. It is our wish that our legislators should realise that a lot has to be gained from the Common Law System. That is why when they go now to other countries like in Nigeria where I studied, they have a National Law Reform Committee. This Committee is manned mostly by Lawyers. When we had the All Anglophone Lawyers Conference in Bamenda, we came up with so many resolutions that we thought if Government implemented them it was supposed to go a long way to solve most of these problems that we have. If you go into what has been harmonized now in the OHADA you will notice that so many of the things inside have lapses same as the Criminal Procedure Code. The main issue concerning this law reforms by our Government is that the reforms are sort of imposed by donor countries. As a result the laws are merely made to satisfy them and not to take care of the needs of the population.

Can you shed light of some of these lapses?

 

In settling an issue which has to do with a client mortgaging a property, they will list all types of documentations that you have to do from one stage to the other and when you make the least error then the whole procedure is annulled. The main essence of mortgaging a property is that if the concerned party cannot pay back his loan then they will have to take the property, sell it off and pay the bank. The bank is there to lend money to the public and this money is people’s money, not theirs. But when they bring cumbersome procedures and it becomes virtually impossible to sell the property of the mortgagor then it destroys the whole essence of the law. The law is there to assist the economy to grow but when it instead stifles the growth of the economy then there is something seriously wrong.

In all circumstances, in Common Law we always say that they cannot sacrifice justice at the altar of technicalities. Somebody cannot bring a case to court and because of the mere fact that there are some procedural errors the case is thrown out. The essence in the mortgage example above is to ensure that the loan has been paid. If he has not paid the loan then his property that was given as collateral should be sold.

There has always been the issue of creating a Law School in Cameroon. Its absence according to many quarters has been holding back the practice of this profession in the country.

When we were in Douala of recent, the Bar Council President told us that they had prepared a bill which they had proposed to the Minister of Justice for the creation of a Law School in Cameroon. That is so far what we know but concretely, we don’t know the structure, how it is supposed to look like and what it entails. But I will want to tell you that our legal system is more or less a Portuguese Parliament for now. Because when they talk about practice in Cameroon, the procedure is just that you leave the University and you sit in for an exam like any other competitive exam like what French speaking Cameroonians call concours. When you pass it, you are sworn in as a Pupil Advocate after which you are assigned to a particular chambers under which you applied at the time of going in for the examination. Unfortunately, there is no programme of action for the training. The Pupil Advocate is at the Mercy of his Principal. If the principal is somebody who is not serious then you come out from there empty. It is considered that after two years of pupilage you sit in for another examination which is the final Bar Examination. When  you pass this exam you are now sworn in as a full fledged advocate with the right to open a chambers of your own.

In the francophone system they talk about training through seminars which are organised haphazardly at every time they think it is supposed to be done. In these seminars they move from one area to the other and it will be very difficult for somebody through that process to do the type of training that you can obtain from a Law School. At the end of the day, the training is not uniform because the pupils who are being trained in the Southwest may be recieving a different training from those who are training in Bamenda. At the end of the day these people will be graduating and writing the same exam. We often say that examination is not the true test of knowledge and so when they graduate the practice on the field will be the determining factor. I think that to harmonize training, there is the dire need for a law school. In Cameroon we think that any good thing must only come from France forgetting that we are now open to the whole world. We should come out with a school which trains everybody as a Magistrate and as a Lawyer. This is the case in Nigeria. It is only after graduation that you put in some years as a lawyer for you to qualify as a Magistrate. But it is instead funny in Cameroon that somebody who had been a Magistrate when he is maybe going on retirement then he can apply to then become a lawyer. We are thinking about creating a law school. Why not just take ENAM, the National School, of Administration and Magistracy as a Law School where both magistrates and lawyers are trained.  

There is also the issue of the way the average Cameroonian relates with the legal practitioner. Many Cameroonians don’t yet seem to be aware of the importance of the legal practitioner. Sometimes people who are not of the profession usurp the activities of the legal practitioner and capitalize also on the ignorance of the population…

What I have realised for the time I have been in practice is that a majority of people are ignorant of the role of the lawyer in the society. The people know that it is when you have a problem that you need to look for a lawyer. But in other countries this is not the orientation. I think people need to know who a lawyer is and what value is supposed to be attached to a lawyer. First the people need to know that before you go into any transaction of any nature, you need to get the advice of a lawyer who is supposed to orientate you on what you are supposed to do before getting into what you want to do because all sectors activities are orientated by a particular law. But people go into these things without consulting us and it is only at the end when there is trouble that they think they have to contact a lawyer. A lawyer is needed at every time in life. Even before you get married a lawyer is needed to advice you on the type of marriage contract you want to get into. 

There is the claim that the lawyer in Cameroon is not yet fully utilizing his powers. How far do you think lawyers are exercising their powers?  

Our Bar has actually not yet assumed its position because normally nothing is supposed to be done without the Bar input. If a bill is supposed to go to Parliament for example and we find out that the bill has something to do with the population, the Bar is supposed to stand up and give its own position on it after scrutinizing the law. Most of the time the bills that go to Parliament fall in the hands of parliamentarians who are not lawyers. In other advanced countries the parliamentarians are given the opportunity to take the stuff home and meet the lawyers for advice but that’s not the case in Cameroon. Here a bill is tabled and the next minute you will want them to deliberate and that same day it is passed into law. There are also issues like the violation of human rights which is going on with impunity. It is the responsibility of the Bar to come up and stand firmly to ensure that those injustices are not done. In Kumba we’ve rammed it down the throats of many that bail is free. We have worked with the legal department in this direction. Before now the gendarmes had taken it upon themselves to give convocations to people on Friday so that by the time you get there you will be forced to pass the weekend in cell. So when you reach there they will make sure they squeeze what ever money that they can get from you. You find people paying FCFA 25.000 if you don’t want to spend the week end in jail. In some cases people pay even fifty or one hundred thousand because they don’t want to pass the week end in jail. We came in and told the State Counsel that this practice is not the best.

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Barrister Charles Njualem:

“Cameroon is a country with its own mistakes and its own gifts.”

This gentleman of the legal profession was born in Lebialem in 1964. He therefore falls in the Bangwa tribe in that same Division. Presently he is father of three kids; two daughters and one son. His primary education was done at the Catholic Primary School in Ngentse, Fontem in Lebialem Division. At the time he intimates, education in that part of the country was completely dominated by the Catholic Mission.

He further explains that at the time they grew up, most of the children from that part of the country did only the primary and secondary education in their native Lebialem. The rest he explained was done out of the village. This explains why his secondary education was done at Government High School Limbe known at the time as Government Secondary Grammar School G.S.G.S. at Down Beach in Victoria presently called Limbe.

He explains his nostalgia in the following manner; “each time I go down to Limbe, I turn and look around and I tell myself that it could only have been this school. The Principal at the time was Mr. Becke Samuel and he was a wonderful School Administrator and teacher. He was a celebrated authority and that’s why we are here. We can never forget him and other authorities who brought us up. There are quite a good number of us students who were in GSGS at the time who recognize each other since we are all authorities in our various fields. The General Manager of the Cameroon Development Corporation Njie Franklin for example was also in the same institution at the time though one or two classes ahead of me.”

Charles Njualem presently heads the Human Rights Law Firm at Mutengene in the Tiko Municipality. He is equally a member of the Cameroon Bar Council. To get an insight of who this gentleman is, let’s get it from the horse’s mouth.

“Put otherwise, 15 of us are ruling all the Lawyers in Cameroon. I am in control of the Lawyers in the Southwest Region. Whether it be a problem of somebody having committed an offence; all of this is brought before me and I take responsibility. Over and above that, we also take care of the interests of colleagues. For example, when a colleague works and is not paid by the client they come to me and I do taxation of fees among other things. I do every other thing that must be done to take care of the interests of colleagues. The relationship with the Magistrates is also taken care of and we can’t recount all of that here.”

The gentleman in this manner explains that there is always much to be done for the Bar and for the supreme interest of every other person since he is not only talking for the interests of the lawyers. He concedes that it is a very challenging task because as he puts it, complains come in on a daily bases and files of complains are countless and each and every file has to be taken care of meticulously. “Over and above the fact that I go to court, when I come back, I have to make sure that every other thing is done.”

Commenting on his romance with the leadership of Fako Lawyers’ Association, Barrister Njualem Charles put it in the following manner: “We have been doing so much at the level of Fako Lawyers’ Association-FAKLA. I was the President of Fako Lawyers’ Association but before I go ahead let me explain that power is given to me by the people. I don’t give myself the power. FAKLA was my creation and that same FAKLA gave me so much authority. That is why I had to create many institutions which helped us in managing our relationship with our colleagues; the young and the old. That is how I grew up and they kept on giving me power and I enjoyed same and that is how they gave me power to represent them at the level of the Bar. So I have had many rights given me by colleagues and from other authorities. That is how I grew up and I cannot tell you that it has all been my doing. Instead, I have been empowered by my colleagues on a daily bases and that is why I am where I am.”

This legal luminary did not fail to hint on his close collaboration with his professional colleagues since from the foregoing, it falls at the center of his modus operandi. “Fako Lawyers’ Association FAKLA is ably represented at the Bar Council. Let me start with Barrister Ajong. He is somewhere in Britain managing Human Rights issues. He is somebody presently celebrated at many levels in his profession because we as lawyers appreciate what the young man is doing. He is a celebrated Human Rights lawyer. There are other colleagues at the Bar Council on behalf of FAKLA and they can hardly say anything without mentioning something about Barrister Charles Njualem. This is simply because I was at the very beginning of every other thing that has been done. If you were to ask the President of Fako Lawyers Association, Barrister Agbor Balla, he will start by telling you that learned Barrister Charles Njualem is to be thanked for where we are and for what we have done and for what we shall do. I also thank them for all that they have done and for what they are doing because it takes two to tango.”

He as such recognises the fact that alone, nothing can be done and goes ahead to thank his colleagues of FAKLA for what they have been doing. The Lawyers of Fako he said work as one and this forms their strong point.

“Those who think they can do it alone because they have been given the opportunity to do one thing or the other will certainly fail. When you are given powers you should make sure that you don’t forget this. You must make sure that you work for the people and not for yourself. I am very happy that all the authorities who are managing FAKLA have made sure that they celebrate this collective interest and they make sure that we work together.”

Asked to give an appraisal of the present legal landscape in Cameroon and to comment on the absence of a Law School, the learned Barrister said “first and foremost, on behalf of the lawyers I will thank you for this important question. It makes me smile because if you are not a serious lawyer, you can play into the hands of somebody. One thing is certain, we are in a country that has a peculiarity. We are in a country where people please third parties and displease themselves. We are in a country where people cannot summon courage to speak the truth. I am afraid that story which we all celebrated is so peculiar and disturbing at the same time that a serious lawyer like myself cannot play into the waiting hands of authorities who want to cause third parties to become happy without looking at the facts and reassuring themselves that the facts are correct. A lawyer of my class will not tell you that this is going to be done. I say this and with good authority that there are a thousand and one things that have been announced in this country and they were never done. Then you think I will go on telling Cameroonians that this is going to happen today and tomorrow and tomorrow.. I will not take that kind of risk. Ha ha ha.” 

Barrister Charles Njualem in this chat with Cameroon People Magazine passed across the following message; “Ours is a country with many problems. Cameroon is just a country like any other one with its own mistakes and its own gifts which we all enjoy. We should accept the peculiarities of the State and join the powers that be in managing the state so that in the final analyses, we can still respect the fact that there is a country called Cameroon. Please don’t abandon it but instead let’s join in managing the State of Cameroon but take your responsibility for all is not well with this country. You definitely have to advise yourselves and if you doubt anything concerning what I have said, then get back to me. And we shall look at Cameroon as a people and find the solutions to our problems.”   

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Dr. Bijingni Pius- Director of TheLimbe Regional Hospital

Dr. Bijingni KUWOH Pius is at the head of one of the oldest and most strategic Regional Hospitals in Cameroon; the Limbe Regional Hospital. This self effacing personality was born of Kuwoh Philip Chungong and Mama Shifa Christina in Bambui. He is as such from the Chungong’s family, one of the biggest and the most popular families from Bambui.

 He attended the Saint Peter’s Catholic Practicing School in Bambui. This personality that has done much to improve upon the health of Cameroonians has very humble beginnings. Mr. Philip Chungong his dad was a Brick Layer working with the Catholic Mission. Dr. Bijingni Pius went to college at Providence Commercial College presently known as Saint Albert’s where he spent just one year. This choice of school was because his dad didn’t have enough money to send him to another school. 

It is during this stay at PCC that his uncle Vincent Nchami now of blessed memory who was working in Buea in the Prime Minister’s Office at the time decided that he should come down to Buea and continue his studies in a Secondary Comprehensive school. In Buea, an attempt to get him into Bishop Rogan College did not succeed. This came after an earlier attempt to get into Sacred Heart College Mankon didn’t also work. Dr. Bijingni in this press briefing declared that he had always wanted to become a medical doctor or a priest or both.

At the time however, the National Comprehensive Secondary School was being created and he succeeded in getting admission there in 1971 in the pioneer batch. In 1976 he made his GCE Ordinary Level and moved over to the Cameroon College of Arts Science and Technology CCAST Bambili. Dr. BijingniKwo Pius was the only science student from the National Comprehensive Secondary School Victoria who succeeded to gain admission into CCAST Bamibili that year. CCAST Bambili at the time was considered the destination of the best English speaking students from all over the country and only the best succeeded to gain admission there. 

After obtaining the GCE Advanced Levels in 1978, he applied for Medical School in Nigeria since his results qualified him for Direct Entry. Due to lack of appropriate communication he did not study in Nigeria but eventually studied at the University Center for Health Sciences CUSS Yaounde; the institution which trains almost all Cameroonian home trained medical doctors. However, before going to CUSS, he taught Biology and Physics at his former school; the National Comprehensive Secondary School Victoria. After this brief romance with the teaching profession, he went to the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Yaounde. It was while he was in the Second year that he passed the Competitive Entrance Examination into CUSS Yaounde. Dr. Bijingni’s story is most perfectly told in the following interview that was done by Francis Ekongang Nzante Lenjo in his cozy home at the Government Residential Area; GRA at Bota in Limbe.

Many believe that at the time, you needed a god father as well as an “envelope” to get into CUSS. How did you get into CUSS?

While studying at the Faculty, I was determined to get into CUSS no matter the number of times that I wrote the entrance exam. I just wanted to see if someone could pass the entrance exam without bribing. So I continued in the Faculty of Sciences while attempting to pass the CUSS entrance. While in the second year in the faculty I wrote the CUSS entrance again and my examination center this time was Providence Comprehensive College Bamenda. After the first day of the exam, we were told that the examination had been cancelled due to question leakages in other parts of the country. We how ever went for a re-sit of the exam a week later. I passed and had to go to CUSS. As a result I was forced to choose between continuing at the faculty and going to CUSS. This was like choosing between day and night since I had always wanted to be a medical doctor. I abandoned the faculty for CUSS. I studied at CUSS from 1982 to 1988, a period of six years and passed my exams in June every year and graduated in December 1988.

From 1988 till date you have been practicing. What do you think are the major highlights of your career?

My first posting was to the Regional Hospital in Ngoundere but because of prevailing circumstances at the time, I was shortly afterwards moved to Wum in Menchum Division. During my student years I saw the way medicine was practiced in the French speaking parts of the country and wished that I was never going to practice there so when they sent me to Wum I went happily. I can logically say that my career began in Wum. Shorty after I took over in Wum, Dr. TabotBenard, the one I replaced went to continue his specialized studies. This left me alone and I did almost everything on my own. My stay there permitted me to take a lot of decisions and take a lot of initiative. Nine months later I was joined by Dr. Chuwanga John who is now retired. I think our era in Wum will always be remembered by the population because we gave our best. We were bachelors and young with very little to disturb us. We were as such completely focused on our job. It was a Divisional Hospital taking care of the whole of Menchum Division. I was there as director from 1989 to 1993. In 1993 I was promoted to the post of Divisional Chief of Service for Public Health for Donga Mantung Division. Now, this post is referred to as the District Medical Officer after the change to the District Health System in 1992. I stayed in Donga Mantung from 1993 to 2001 but during this period I got a scholarship through GIZ; the German Development Cooperation and went to specialize in Public Health in Antwerp, Belgium. I came back in 1997-1998 with a Masters in Public Health and continued to work in Nkambe. While in Nkambe I introduced the District Health System which had just started. We had not yet well understood the notion of Integrated Health Centers. At the time they were talking of Developed Health Centers and then the PMI but later they changed to what is referred to as the Integrated Health Centers. The PMI took care of the mother and the child and the Developed Health Centers had a couple of activities that they were carrying out. They had a limited range of activities so we had to train people and fit them in the new orientation. Donga Mantung was too big to be managed as one Health District. I had to go to Nwa, Abongshe, and there were even areas under Fundong that were attached to Nkambe. A place like Fonfuka for health reasons is attached to Nkambe because if there is an outbreak, somebody will easily intervene from Nkambe. I proposed that they should carve out the Ndu Health District and at the time the Doctor Population ratio too was not very good. With the carving out of new districts we hoped more Doctors would come in. I also proposed the creation of many health centers.

The South West Regional  Hospital, Limbe

So where did you deposit your bags next after leaving Donga Mantung?

From there I was posted to the Bali Health District. I worked in Bali Nyonga from 2001 to 2009. During this period, I used to go out and work for the World Health Organization; WHO and the CDC; Center for Disease Control in the polio eradication initiative. In 2006 I was in Ethiopia and in 2008 I was in Chad, 2009 I was in Nigeria and then in 2013 I was in Pakistan working on the Polio Eradication Programme. Bali was a smaller district than Nkambe and I think there are many people that will remember my stay there. From 2009 I was moved to the Batibo Health District in the same capacity. At sometimes I was called up to the Region to reinforce the supervision team of the Region and sometimes I was also called up at the National Level as a Health Planner. In 2002 I attended an International Course in Bamenda on Action Research Organised by GIZ and the University of Sydney. We had participants from Nigeria, Cameroon and many other countries. 

What is your evaluation of the quality of Health Services in Cameroon over the years?

There has been a lot of positive change because you look at quality from the perspective of the infrastructure, the Health Personnel, the equipment and the users. For us to have good quality health care there must be improvements not only in the health sector but also in what we call related sectors. I think the few improvements that we’ve had are also due to an overall improvements in the country as a whole.In Wum in the eighties, there were days that vehicles only went up and other days in which vehicles only went down. At weekends you will sit in front of the Hospital and see an old Land Rover coming from the Esimbi area. When this happened, I knew that I was either going to have a strangulated hernia or a woman who had ruptured her uterus. Vehicles went only once a week ;that was on the market day and if you had a strangulated hernia and missed out on a vehicle you had to wait till the next market day. There have been improvements in health Services due to an increased in the number of health personnel and the much training on quality of Health care that has also taken place. This has made the Health Personnel to be more aware of quality even if it is difficult to practice. I think that we are still very far and we cannot only look at quality from the perspective of the Health Personnel. You also have to look at quality from the way the service users look at it; that is their own idea of quality. 

Many are those who think health personnel sometimes demand too much for services… 

I think the health personnel have been abandoned by Government for too long. Consultations for example in this country are normally 600 Frs CFA and this has been the rate since 1963. I don’t think that there is anything in this country that is selling at the rate at which it sold in 1963. The WHO says that at least 15% of the national budget should go into the health sector but in Cameroon we are at 5%. These are inadequacies that can explain some of the difficulties that we are going through at the moment. As long as the person who needs health care is negotiating with the person who is providing health care and paying out of pocket, it is always going to pose a problem. There has to be a third party between the two of them who purchases the health care for the person who is sick and imposes the quality and other requirements associated with it.

What kind of hospital did you meet and how far down the road have you taken that hospital?

Well with my experience as a Public Health Physician and Manager and given the years I spent at the District Level, close to a quarter of a century before coming to the Regional Hospital in Limbe, the first thing I did was a situational analyses. It is an old hospital constructed in 1946 and they started using it in 1948. It is a 200 bed capacity hospital. When I arrived I noticed that most of the services were not functioning. The X-Ray Machine was bad, there was no Echography Machine, the Dental Chair was not working and you had specialists in these places. These ones I call the software. The buildings are there but you need what I call the software in order to make the hardware function. We decided to buy some of these equipment and the Ministry provided some while others were provided by Senator Peter MafanyMusonge. Now we have an X-ray Machine. We have an ultra sound machine, we have an x-ray machine and we’ve at least got a dental chair. There is a lot which has to do with organization and like you talked about the quality of services, I put in place a Quality Improvement Task Force and also introduced the User Satisfaction Index Service which is consulted on monthly bases. We also paid more attention to our suggestion boxes and we visit them once a month and do what can be done as seen in the suggestion boxes. What we can’t do is forwarded to hierarchy.    

   There were also some Administrative lapses such as conflicts between workers that we went back to ministerial texts to straighten out issues. I think the atmosphere in the hospital is calm and the people are more relaxed. This is shown through some indicators. People spend shorter times in the hospital without seeing the doctor. The staff situation also improved and we have Doctors in most places in the hospital. The number of people using the hospital has also increased. From 26000 people in 2014 the number increased to 33000 in 2015. The number of deliveries also moved from 600 in 2013 to 800 in 2014 and in 2015 it moved to 950 deliveries. The imaging center that is under construction is going to house the scanner and the X-ray Machine and an MRI Machine as well as a Panoramic Dental X-ray Machine. Like I said, the hospital is an old one and the infrastructure needs a face lift. If not only for the African Nations Cup the institution needs to be taken care of generally. A stitch in time they say saves nine.