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Cameroon Patients Flee Hospital as COVID-19 Cases Increase

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE - Cameroon says hundreds of hospital patients have fled health
   facilities after a jump in cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the
   coronavirus.

   Cameroon has about 7,400 confirmed cases and more than 205 deaths from
   COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. Patients say they are
   afraid of catching the coronavirus at hospitals, but health officials
   warn that not getting needed treatments for other health issues can put
   them at higher risk.
   The highest number of patients who have fled hospitals are in the
   western towns of Bamenda and Bafoussam; the capital, Yaounde; and the
   economic capital of Douala, where confirmed cases of COVID-19 are
   increasing daily, said Health Minister Manaouda Malachie.

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