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Cameroonians across the world are enraged, and a petition for a mass sack at a hospital has gone viral on the Internet, after a pregnant woman with twins died in front of a hospital in the commercial city of Douala on Saturday, unattended to by the callous staff.
What happened next is beyond belief. After the babies were confirmed to be alive, a relative of the deceased, who is a trader, rushed to a nearby pharmacy, bought all the surgical items she needed, performed an operation on the dead woman, brought out the twins alive to the joy of those watching, but with no care, the babies later died, leaving those celebrating moments earlier in tears.
The tragic story created a storm of digital mass anger across a quiet country now enjoying 4G Internet connection for the first time, and sending, maybe, a warning that things may never be the same again in a country where one man has been in power for 33 years.
Read and watch as narrated on Facebook by journalist Yanick Fonki Ndaley
“Monique KOUMATE, 31, died of birth complications this Saturday 12th March, 2016 at the Douala Laquintini Hospital around 3pm with her twins detected by a gynaecologist’s stethoscope as being alive.
“To the family’s greatest dismay, medics at the hospital (refused to) perform caesarian section (operation) on the corpse to save the twins.
“But more shockingly, the niece of the deceased (a trader), rushed to the nearby pharmacy and bought all surgery equipment and came right at the front of the maternity of the hospital and performed the operation, rescuing the lives of the twins from the womb of her dead aunt.
“Unfortunately, the babies died hours later.
“Meantime, an Internal investigation has been opened to the matter
“Terrible thing in Douala, Cameroon”.
Published on: March 13, 2016