Bamenda Regional Hospital gets Listening and Orientation Unit for gender-based violence victims

By Moma Sandrine The Bamenda Regional Hospital, has welcomed a new unit to its structure known as the Listening and Orientation Unit, LOU. The unit that seeks to handle cases of gender based violence (GBV) was inaugurated on September 26 by a nongovernmental organisation, Médecins du Monde Suisse in collaboration with the Bamenda Regional Hospital. Following several cases of GBV that have been recorded in the North West Region, the need for an orientation unit became eminent as the director to the Regional Hospital, Dr Kingue Thompson explains: “we have been having so many cases of GBV. Last year alone…