University of Buea : Injuries Data Centre Goes Operation

Two research projects have gone operational at the University of Buea aimed at improving surgery especially from injuries. The first is a Data Centre for the Studies of Surgeries, Injuries and Equity in Africa (D-SINE Africa) and the second is entitled, “Quality Pipeline for Multidisciplinary Trauma Research in Cameroon (STREaM Cameroon)”. They were officially launched by Prof. Ngomo Horace Manga, Vice Chancellor of the University of Buea, on May 12, 2022. Prof. Chichom Mefire, the Principal Investigator, x-rayed the projects to the public in the Amphitheater 500 in the Faculty of Health Science. 
Prof. Mefire said they will deploy research assistants to 10 hospitals in Cameroon who will be responsible for collecting data which will be analysed. The purpose is to guide decision makers into what to do so as to control the problem of injuries in Cameroon. “Injuries in Cameroon are still neglected and epidemiologists call it the neglected epidemic. We believe that injuries should deserve the same level of priority as other public health issues in Cameroon,” he explained. The second project will permit them to identify those patients who have been discharged but are still sick at home. They will be brought back to hospital in a situation where they can have quality surgical care. 
 Prof. Ngomo Manga in launching the projects said over the next five years the D-SINE Africa centre project which cost FCFA 3.500.000.000 will massively collect data on injuries that will be used to run two major sub proj...