Simon Pierre Tchoungui
Simon Pierre Tchoungui ( born October 28, 1916 in Nkolmending; † July 1997) was a Cameroonian politician.
Life
Tchoungui started school in 1928 at the Catholic Mission School of Akono and finished this after another visit to the Regional School in 1938 as valedictorian of the high school ( École Supérieure ) of Yaoundé. He then worked as a nurse, in 1939 Director of the Medical post in Mbalmayo and a year later, with the outbreak of World War in France employee at the hospital in Bafia.
In February 1943, he joined as a volunteer in the Forces Françaises Libres under Charles de Gaulle, and participated in the liberation of France. Then he attended for some time the École de Médecine de l' AOF - Afrique Occidentale Française in Dakar, which he then graduated in 1946 as valedictorian. In the following years he worked initially until 1947, chief of the medical post in Bafoussam, before he became a doctor at the Central Hospital of Yaoundé. He was most recently Deputy Medical Director and is responsible for surgery and obstetrics. He then studied medicine in Paris and acquired there in 1956 a Ph.D. in medicine with a dissertation on tuberculosis in Cameroon.
After his return to Cameroon in September 1956 he joined the staff of the Tuberculosis Division of the Medical Service and at the same time representative for the medical inspection of schools in the country. In January 1957 he was appointed private secretary. In 1959 he was lecturer of International Relations at 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 20 October 1961 he was finally appointed himself as Minister of Public Health Today in the cabinet of Charles ASSALE. In this capacity, he participated in a Joint Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO ) and the World Health Organization ( WHO) in Geneva on nutritional standards in October 1962. In a cabinet reshuffle, he took over on July 1, 1964, the Office of the Minister of National Economy, nearly a year later, on May 25, 1965 but again the Office of the Minister of Public Health.
On November 20, 1965 he became the successor of Paul Vincent Ahanda himself Prime Minister of East Cameroon. This office he held until the merger of East and West Cameroon on June 2, 1972 Republic of Cameroon and the consequent temporary abolition of the Office of the Prime Minister of the two parts of the country. Subsequently, the Office of the Government in personal union of President Ahmadou Ahidjo was perceived.
For his services he was awarded several domestic and foreign orders and appointed among other Knight of the Legion of Honour.