Corruption: Pharmacists, doctors, nurses accused

Bamenda is considered the city in Cameroon with the largest number of street drug sellers.

According to Gaby Ambo of the National Coalition of Anti-Corruption (CNLCC), corruption has allowed "the proliferation of drug counterfeiters and the establishment of distribution networks of illegal drugs," Le Messager newspaper reported on Thursday, December 17, 2015.

Dieudonné Massy Gams, president of the National Commission on Anti-Corruption, CONAC, had however advised users that "bad handling, storage, stalls exposed of drugs to the weather affect the active ingredients, making them unsuitable and dangerous for consumption by both human and animal.

Trades related to medicine have been strongly implicated in the debate, on December 9, 2015, at the conference room of the Governor of the North West region.

"There is an illegal sale of medicines by nurses in our hospitals, or by some trained but not employed in health facilities," acknowledged Dr. Mathilda Manjoo, Regional Delegate of Public Health in the North West. For her, unemployment is a factor encouraging this state of affairs.

For Dr. Sama, to eradicate this phenomenon, we must destroy the source of supply. However, she also asserted that no drug can circulate clandestinely without the complicity of pharmacists, doctors, and nurses.

Bamenda is known to be the "Drug Store" swarm where many shops have been set up for drug sales.

As a solution, it was proposed that there should be the creation of a permanent brigade that will specifically put an end to this in the drug sector.

In 2014, the "Task force" brigade had already seized a large shipment of questionable drug worth FCFA 450 million in 2014 and in 2015 was a cargo worth FCFA 350 million that was intercepted.