Paediatric Surgeon – Paediatric & Specialised Surgery
Status: Applications closed
This recruitment closed on 21 September 2026 at 15:30. The notice is kept here for reference. Future calls will be published on this page.
As part of strengthening its human capital to achieve its objectives for 2026, the General Manager of the Yaounde Gynaeco-Obstetric and Pediatric Hospital (YGOPH) launched, for the 2026 budget year, the recruitment of a paediatric surgeon (notice dated 1 September 2026).
The Yaounde Gynaeco-Obstetric and Pediatric Hospital is a public hospital establishment with legal personality and financial autonomy. Its main mission is to provide quality care to women, children, adolescents and vulnerable groups.
Context and justification
To strengthen its technical platform and improve the quality of care, YGOPH is recruiting a paediatric surgeon.
The Paediatric Surgery and Other Surgical Specialties service is called upon for complex and urgent operations. The service has few hospital doctors, and this shortage has a considerable impact on the continuity of care. Recruiting a new doctor is essential to ensure patient safety in surgery, maintain the quality of anaesthetic care and strengthen the existing team.
The objective of the position is therefore to strengthen the existing team of surgeons and to provide quality surgical care to patients, guarantee perioperative safety and collaborate closely with the staff of the clinical services and units: gynaecology-obstetrics, paediatrics, anaesthesia and intensive care, urology, ENT, ophthalmology, emergencies, the operating theatre and gynaecological oncology.
Required profile
Hold a specialisation diploma in Paediatric Surgery.
Missions and responsibilities
- Carry out surgical consultations;
- Ensure that parents have read, understood and signed the informed consent for surgery;
- Ensure that parents have read, understood and signed the informed consent for anaesthesia;
- Show great technical dexterity and precision in all procedures;
- Ensure pre- and post-operative monitoring until the patient is stable;
- Admit life-threatening emergencies and patients to the operating theatre with the utmost diligence, after optimal preparation;
- Collaborate effectively with the anaesthetists-intensivists before, during and after operations;
- Take part in operating staff meetings;
- Supervise students, residents and other trainees;
- Take part in drafting protocols and in the continuous improvement of the quality of care.
Working conditions
- Availability;
- Participation in on-call duties;
- Participation in the service's joint ward rounds and in hospital meetings;
- Interventions in other units on request.
Medico-legal obligations
- Systematically obtain the informed consent of the patient or family for the planned surgical procedure;
- Complete medical records and ensure the traceability of all procedures performed;
- Respect medical ethics;
- Guarantee patient safety;
- Respect confidentiality.
Application file
The application file had to include the following documents:
- A handwritten application on stamped paper, duly signed, addressed to the General Manager of YGOPH and stating the position applied for;
- A certified copy of the birth certificate;
- A certified copy of the national identity card, or of a receipt valid on the date of submission;
- A curriculum vitae dated and signed by the candidate;
- An uncertified copy of the basic academic degree (doctorate in medicine);
- A certified true copy of the required specialisation diploma;
- An extract of the criminal record less than three months old;
- A photocopy of the certificate of registration with the Order;
- A half-card photo (4 x 4) stapled to the application.
Submission of applications
- Applications addressed to the General Manager of YGOPH were submitted in a sealed envelope to the secretariat of the Sub-Directorate of Human Resources and General Affairs;
- The deadline was 21 September 2026 at 15:30.
Note: only complete files submitted on time are examined, and candidates selected after the review of files are invited for an interview.