{"id":65920,"date":"2021-07-20T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hospitalarias.org\/en\/?p=52169"},"modified":"2021-07-20T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T07:13:08","slug":"newsletter-contigo-july-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hospitalarias.org\/en\/newsletter-contigo-july-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter CONTIGO, July 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mental health support in Cameroon<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nthe first four months of 2021, the Fundaci\u00f3n Benito Menni and the Sisters\nHospitallers\u2019 Benedict Menni Mental Health Clinic in Douala (Cameroon) have\nundertaken a project to \u201cSupport for Mental Health Consultations in Tole,\u201d\nfunded by the City Council of Cendea de Olza (Spain).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nproject offers mental healthcare and medication to people suffering from mental\nillness, especially women, in Tole, a municipality located in Cameroon\u2019s\nsouthwest province. The need for this project has only increased as a result of\nthe region\u2019s political war, which has lasted more than three years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\npeople treated under this initiative struggle socio-economically to gain access\nto food because violence in the area has caused a large portion of the\npopulation to abandon their homes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Our\nmental health clinic in Douala <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nSisters Hospitallers\u2019 St. Benedict Menni Mental Health Clinic began operating\nin 2000 in Douala, providing support to people suffering from neurological or\nmental health disorders (anxiety, stress, psychogenic headaches, nervous\nbreakdowns, psychosis, epilepsy, etc.). The centre develops its actions through\nfour healthcare channels: the mental health clinic, the outpatient centre,\ncaring for the unhoused population suffering from mental illness, and\ndispatching the team to areas that do not have specialised mental health\ninstitutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\naddition to caring for those suffering from mental illness and providing\noccupational therapy, the clinic helps raise awareness of mental health among\nthe families of patients and society at large through audiovisual materials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Current\ncontext in Tole<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Tole\nis located in Cameroon\u2019s southwest province. Its capital, BUEA (58,156 h), is\nsituated at the foot of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano at an altitude of\n1,000 meters. A team from the Benedict Menni MHC in Douala travels the 100 km\nto Tole once a month. At the moment, the region\u2019s socio-political situation,\nwhich has never been exemplary, is deteriorating even more due to domestic\nconflicts that affect the population, with repercussions on some of the\nproject\u2019s activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, the conflict in the northwest and southwest provinces that began in 2016, which could be classified as a civil war, has intensified in recent months. On one side are the Anglophone Cameroonians, themselves divided into secessionists and federalists, and on the other side are the French-speaking government of president, Paul Biya, the military, and the police. The separatist protesters incited a series of riots in late 2016 to protest the widespread abandonment of Anglophone areas due to the appointment of French judges to courts in English regions. In 2017, this culminated in the unilateral declaration of independence of Ambazonia, an area in southwest Cameroon, by the Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Consortium United Front&nbsp;(SCACUF), secessionists from the English-speaking northwest and southwest regions. In light of this situation, the Cameroonian government used force as a repressive tactic, and since the country has seen a significant escalation in violence on both sides; Ambazonia also has armed groups, including the Ambazonian Restoration Forces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nturn, the arrest of Tabe, considered the first self-proclaimed president of\nAmbazonia, triggered the formation of a new, armed group in 2018, the Banso\nResistance Army, currently operating in the northwest. This conflict has\nalready displaced more than 180,000 people in English-speaking areas, where\nboth the military and separatists have been accused by international\norganisations of violating fundamental human rights by razing villages and\nattacking schools, among other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because it is located in the southwest, Tole is particularly affected by the conflict, especially by the recent upsurge in violence, which has had a direct impact on the activities and beneficiaries of the project, who have been forced to flee their homes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalarias.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/CONTIGO.N43.-Julio-2021.EN_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read more (se abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental health support in Cameroon In the first four months of 2021, the Fundaci\u00f3n Benito Menni and the Sisters Hospitallers\u2019 Benedict Menni Mental Health Clinic in Douala (Cameroon) have undertaken a project to \u201cSupport for Mental Health Consultations in Tole,\u201d funded by the City Council of Cendea de Olza (Spain). 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