Renal Care Infrastructure – Hôpital Régional de Bafoussam

The gap in Bafoussam was not the building; it was everything that makes a building a functioning dialysis centre. The solution, therefore, was to equip the existing shell with a complete, modern dialysis system, turning an empty room into a working service.

Through rigorous contract procedures, Gima-Bambot MedTech Ltd. was retained for this delicate government project: to equip the centre with an ultra-modern dialysis system, in tandem with the services needed to run it reliably.

Rather than supplying machines alone, the project delivered an integrated hemodialysis solution, treatment stations, a water treatment system for the ultra-pure water dialysis requires, and the supporting services, so that the Western Region would gain not just equipment, but dependable renal care infrastructure built to last.

Delivered as a coordinated project deployment, the centre moved from an unequipped building to a working facility in a tightly managed sequence:

1. Government tender. Following rigorous contract procedures, Gima-Bambot was retained for the project.
2. Dialysis system installation. Gima-Bambot equipped the centre with an ultra-modern dialysis system of 10 treatment posts.
3. Water treatment and technical environment. The supporting water treatment system, essential to safe dialysis, was installed and commissioned with our biomedical engineering expertise.
4. Services and handover. Gima-Bambot provided the services needed to bring the centre into reliable, everyday operation, in close collaboration with government managers.

Timeline: the Ministry’s objectives were achieved in just three months.

In three months, the Ministry of Public Health’s objectives were achieved, and the Western Region now has its own dialysis centre:

• An ultra-modern dialysis centre with 10 treatment posts, in a building that had stood unequipped.
• An end to ~300 km journeys, with dialysis now available locally in Bafoussam.
• High-quality care delivered locally, in line with the Ministry’s goal of the best possible patient outcomes.
• A functioning public good for the Western Region, built through genuine collaboration.
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For a region whose dialysis building had never treated a patient, these results represent a fundamental change in access to care.

The deepest impact is measured in journeys no longer taken and families no longer uprooted. For patients living with chronic kidney disease in the Western Region, the new centre means life-sustaining treatment close to home, without the exhausting, costly and repeated travel to Bamenda, Buea, Yaoundé or Douala. Many patients who once had to relocate can now remain with their families while receiving the care they need.

For the region’s health system, the centre finally activates an asset that had long stood idle, and demonstrates what a focused public-sector investment, led by the Ministry of Public Health, can achieve when paired with the right delivery partner. The spirit of the project, co-labour, joint efforts and shared ownership of a public good, is exactly what makes such infrastructure endure.

By turning an empty building into a working dialysis centre in just three months, this project illustrates how the right partnership can extend essential care to underserved regions, and offers a replicable model for expanding dialysis access across Cameroon and the wider CEMAC sub-region.

This is one of several renal care projects through which Gima-Bambot is transforming healthcare across Africa, alongside the new centre at Hôpital Régional de Ngaoundéré, the extension at Hôpital Général de Douala and capacity building at Maroua.