She was caught on camera doing field interventions. Hon. Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia, Member of Parliament for Momo East Constituency, Mbengwi has as usual penetrated the bushes of Kob and Njimetu for parliamentary works. Many at times when she succeeds to grab government sponsored projects for her constituents, she always makes sure she descends to the field during or after realisation to see things for herself and not just rely solely on reports sent to her.
On Thursday December 15 2022, Mbengwi Online's cameras caught Hon. Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia at the Kob Integrated Health Centre where she led a delegation made up of the mayor of the Mbengwi Council, Ndangsa Kennedy Akam, the President General of the Meta Cultural and Development Association (MECUDA) Prof. Njoh Oliver, medical personnel from the Mbengwi District Hospital among others for a donation exercise.
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| Family Photo With Items |
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| Hon. Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia and the Medical Team that Accompanied Her |
The items were medical equipments worth over 8 millions francs. In her welcome address to the visiting delegation, Mrs. Fonong Yvette née Chum, Chief of Kob Integrated Health Centre remarked that it is a wonderful day for the people of Kob Health Area as the equipments will boost patient care and encourage the villagers to make better use of the centre. She however regretted the devastating effects of the socioeconomic and political crisis that hit the NW/SW region from late 2016 on the health centre.
Other problems as cited by the Chief of Centre include lack of personnel, low population density creating difficulties in generating funds, poor nature of road leading to the centre causing frequent falls from bikes, no nurses' residence, shortage of drugs, no reagents in the laboratory amongst others.
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| Mdical Equipments Worth Over 8 Million Francs Donated to the Kob Integrated Health Centre |
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| Mrs. Fonong Yvette née Chum, Chief of Kob Integrated Health Centre Delivering a Welcome Address |
Fortunately, the items brought by the M.P were a lasting solution to some of these problems cited in the welcome address of the Chief of Centre. Before the handing over exercise, the visiting delegation toured the various departments of the centre to ascertain the reality of their current state. The Kob Integrated Health Centre has an office for the Chief of Centre, a consultation room, a laboratory, a pharmacy, a hall for Infant Welfare and Antenatal Clinic, a maternity section with a delivery room and post natal ward plus one room for male ward, one for female ward. It has eight internal toilets, four internal baths, six external toilets and a placenta pit.
In the course of the event, room was given for the people to speak out their minds on any grievances they have against the centre and when the chairman of the Kob traditional council took to the floor, in a strong and embittered tone, he regretted that the items brought will all disappear within the shortest possible time because no staff of the health centre is living in Kob. "God knows what I'm saying, that when people come here, there's nobody to attain to them" said the angry father.
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| Embittered Kob Traditional Council |
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| One of the Wards in the Health Centre |
He cited an example of how a lady lose her baby while putting to birth because the umbilical chord strangled the foetus and upon rushing to the health centre for emergency intervention, there was nobody and consequently the baby passed away. "If you see this place regressing like this, it's because no staff is living here and we don't know why" he insisted. Unfortunately, the centre has just two workers; one state employed nurse who is the Chief of Centre and one nurse employed and paid by the health facility.
Dodging from the punch stretched at them by the traditional council chairman, they too defended themselves that the villagers aren't making use of the centre, that many at times, days go by and no single patient passes by the centre for consultation thus making it discouraging for them workers to come idle there especially as the centre is located in an isolated area surrounded by bushes.
Aerial View of Kob Integrated Health Centre
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| Visiting Delegation |
When Honourable Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia took to the floor to address her constituents, she began with "On behalf of our mother, our sister, our grandmother, our friend, Her Excellency Minister Mbah Acha Rose, I'm very happy to be here. Accept her best regards which she sent through me." Reacting to the worries posed by the beneficiary community and the nurses of the centre, Foo Ngang Prodencia said "As you've gladly come out to receive these items and as you've shown interest in the effective functioning of the place, from now onwards as you'll start coming here, so too shall we be monitoring the chief of centre and colleague to ensure they're effectively on seat during working days and hours."
Kob Integrated Health Centre was created on the 18th of January 2007 and has for 15 years now been of active service to the people of Kob, Tudig, Fun, Nyen, Njinibi, , Zem, Bessi Tibatoh and other neighbouring villages. Services offered at the centre include consultation, lab test, vaccination, family planning, antenatal clinic, deliveries, health education and outreaches. At moment, the centre has just a nurse and needs two more plus two auxiliary workers, that is cleaner and yard man. Also, the centre is in dire need of a lab technician, midwife, pharmacist and security guard.
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