The Douala General Hospital is a public and administrative establishment with legal personality and financial autonomy. It is headed by a board of directors that determines the establishment's policies in coordination with general management. Located in the heart of a rapidly expanding agglomeration with an evolving demographic growth rate, Douala General Hospital is a reference center for the health sector in the coastal and southwestern region. Its missions as defined by the presidential decree on the creation of the Douala General Hospital are, among others, to limit medical evacuations, to provide high-level medical care, to serve as an educational support for the training of specialists in various medical disciplines. The staff numbers 616, Including, 94 administrative staff, 95 general service agents, 10 general practitioners, 87 specialist doctors, 44 medical technicians, 4 pharmacists, 249 caregivers and 33 technicians.