Organization - Centre Pasteur du Cameroun
Organization
The Board of Directors defines and guides the Center’s general policy and evaluates its management, within the limits set by its missions and in accordance with applicable regulations. It adopts budgets and approves annual performance reports.
The General Management is responsible for implementing the Center’s general policy and management. It must report to the Board of Directors and supervisory bodies on the execution of this strategy and its budget. To this end, the General Management relies on a Management Committee in Yaoundé and a Deputy Director in Garoua.
The Director General also relies on a scientific committee that helps define strategic development priorities, particularly in the areas of public health and research. A member of the Pasteur Network (PN) Directors’ Assembly, he ensures the CPC’s anchoring in this network.
Chairperson of the Board of Directors
Managing Director
Deputy Managing Director
The following departments and activities report to the general management:
- Quality
- Management Control
- Marketing and communications
- Legal
Dr Sara Eyangoh
Scientific Director
Scientific Director
Scientific Department
The main task of the Scientific Division is to implement the policy defined by the Executive Board in the fields of Research, Public Health and the Environment. It is responsible for :
- health research, in line with the priorities of the sectoral strategy of the Ministry of Public Health;
- scientific leadership. In this capacity, she leads the Scientific Committee and coordinates the organisation of the CPC’s Scientific Days;
- student intake: masters and doctoral students;
- compliance with ethical constraints ;
- public health activities (infectious disease surveillance, quality control and laboratory capacity building);
- research and microbiological and physicochemical analysis of water, food and the environment.
Elle comprend :
- the Epidemiology and Public Health Service;
- the Hygiene and Environment Service – Microbiology;
- the Hygiene and Environment Physical-Chemistry Department;
- the Mycobacteriology Department;
- the Malaria Service;
- the Virology Department.
The Mycobacteriology and Virology Services are hierarchically attached to the Scientific Department and functionally to the Medical Department for their service activities.
Financial support from donors is essential to carry out all of these activities.
Dr Suzanne Belinga
Medical Director
Medical Director
The Medical Department
The Medical Directorate ensures the care of patients who contact the Center Pasteur du Cameroun for medical analyses, vaccination and rabies prevention. It also provides initial and continuing training for health professionals in medical analyses. It includes 8 services which are:
- Reception and collection
- Pathological anatomy and cytology
- Bacteriology
- Biochemistry
- Hematology
- Serology
- International and anti-rabies vaccination center
- Training school for medical analysis technicians
The medical analysis laboratory is open continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Based on a quality management approach, it obtained ISO 15189 accreditation in 2019 for virology laboratories and serology.
The training school for medical and health technicians at the CentrePasteur in Cameroon offers a 3-year course. It welcomes 2 promotions per year.
Mrs Nonga Bilogba Elias Thiéry
Interim Administrative and Financial Director
Interim Administrative and Financial Director
The Administrative and Financial Department
This department, real support for technical activities, is in charge of financial management, logistics and administrative organization of the Pasteur Center of Cameroon. It integrates the entities below :
- Accounting and Finance Department,
- Human Resources Department,
- IT Service,
- General Services,
- Purchasing and Inventory Management Department,
- Biomedical Maintenance Service, and
The DAF draws its activities from four (04) main missions below:
- Participate in the choice of strategy and its implementation;
- Ensure economic profitability and transmit its analyses;
- Ensure that accounting and tax rules are respected;
- Manage liquidity and exercise internal control.
