Government on campaign to rid Yaoundé streets of mentally challenged persons

Cameroonian authorities, via the Yaounde City Council’s Department of Urban Order have launched a campaign — with the goal of removing mental patients from the streets.




30 mental patients benefited from the program on Sartuday June 4, 2022.

A team of mental health specialists from the Ministry of Public Health were present to facilitate the exercise.




It was on the sidelines of the 5th phase of a campaign launched in May under the theme “Zero mental illness in the streets of Yaounde.”

According to Dr Laure Menguene, Deputy director of mental health at the ministry of public health, 89 persons with mental illness were taken off the streets during the exercise.




“It is a sign that we are gradually getting close to our objective,” she noted.

Statistics show that over 300 mental patients have so far been taken off the streets and transferd to the Jamot hospital in Yaounde.




Persons whose condition are stabilized during treatment, are permitted to return to their homes but with proper follow up.

A hotline, ‘1510″ has also been put at the disposal of their family members in case of any relapses.




“The cost is taken care of by the Yaounde City Council which has renovated the building that hosts the ‘Village of Love’ at the Jamot Hospital in Yaoundé, from the fence to the dormitories, toilets, kitchens, etc,” indicated Denise Ngono Metomo, Director of Social, Cultural and Sports Affairs at the Yaoundé City Council.

Mayor Roger Mbassa Ndine of the Douala City Council said: “With the multiplicity of stray persons with mental health challenges in Douala, it was necessary that we come to Yaoundé which has a head start in the care of these patients to see how it is done.”


By Amina Hilda

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