Simon Pierre Tchoungui

Simon Pierre Tchoungui (born October 28, 1916 in Nkolmending , † July 1997 ) was a Cameroonian politician .

Life

Tchoungui began his school education in 1928 at the Catholic Mission School of Akono and finished it after further attendance at the regional school in 1938 as the best of his year at the high school (École Supérieure) of Yaoundé . He then worked as a nurse, became head of the medical post in Mbalmayo in 1939 and a year later at the beginning of the Second World War in France as a worker at the hospital in Bafia .

In February 1943 he volunteered in the Forces françaises libres under Charles de Gaulle and took part in the liberation of France . He then attended the École de Médecine de l'AOF - Afrique Occidentale Française in Dakar for some time , which he again graduated as the best of his year in 1946. In the following years he was head of the medical post in Bafoussam until 1947 , before he became a doctor at the central hospital of Yaoundé. There he was most recently Deputy Medical Director and responsible for surgery and obstetrics . He then studied medicine in Paris, where he earned a doctorate in medicine in 1956 with a dissertation on tuberculosis in Cameroon.

After his return to Cameroon in September 1956, he became an employee of the tuberculosis department of the Medical Service and at the same time the officer in charge of the medical inspection of schools in the country. In January 1957 he was appointed cabinet director. In 1959 he was appointed representative for international relations in the Ministry of Public Health (Ministère de la Santé Publique) and then in March 1960 Medical Director of the Central Hospital of Yaoundé. In March 1960 he also became the first President of the Red Cross of Cameroon and later President of the Association of War Veterans (l'Association des Anciens Combattants).

On October 20, 1961, he was finally appointed to the cabinet of Charles Assalé as Minister of Public Health . In this capacity, he took part in October 1962 at a joint conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on nutritional standards. As part of a government reshuffle, he took over the post of Minister for National Economy on July 1, 1964, but just under a year later, on May 25, 1965, he was again appointed Minister of Public Health.

On November 20, 1965, he succeeded Vincent Paul Ahanda himself as Prime Minister of Eastern Cameroon . He held this office until the merger of East and West Cameroon on June 2, 1972 to form the Republic of Cameroon and the subsequent temporary abolition of the office of Prime Minister of the two parts of the country. The office of head of government was then carried out by President Ahmadou Ahidjo .

For his services he has been awarded several national and international medals and among other things has been made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ October 1962 REPORT OP THE JOINT FAQ / WHO Conference (PDF; 3.7 MB) accessed May 7, 2011