The aim of this project is to improve medical care for the population in north-western Cameroon by setting up a surgical orthopedic center in the St. Martin de Porres hospital. This was founded in 1963 by the Tertiary Sisters from Brixen, who have been working in Cameroon since 1935, as a missionary hospital and has a catchment area of 25,000 inhabitants.

The purpose of the project is to care for patients in the new orthopedic trauma surgery department and to train the local doctors and surgical assistants. The Cameroonian orthopedic surgeon was given the opportunity to spend a training period in Europe.

Since 2010, South Tyrolean and Swiss orthopedic surgeons have visited Njinikom twice a year to perform complex surgical procedures, to train the local doctors and operating theatre staff, to support the expansion of the orthopedic center and to offer advice.

Joint replacement operations require optimal sterility of instruments and implants. To make this possible, the association financed the purchase of a sterilizer in collaboration with the Autonomous Province. With the help of volunteer South Tyrolean electricians, the entire hospital electrical system was renovated. Due to the frequent power outages, solar panels with batteries were installed in 2021 to store the surplus electricity.

The Orthopaedic Center in Njinikom is a joint project of the Tertiary Sisters, World Doctors, the Orthoplus Bolzano Center, the Rosenberg St. Gallen Clinic and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano.

Due to the civil war raging in the Anglophone part of Cameroon and the coronavirus pandemic, all medical specialist missions in Njinikom are currently canceled.

Always in cooperation with the Order of the Tertiary Sisters, World Doctors made it possible to build an operating theater in the Mayo Darle hospital, to renovate a center for the disabled in Douala and to purchase an X-ray development machine in Shissong.