Ngat-Bane, like many other Cameroonian villages, has abundant wildlife and dispersed thatched huts, but zero hospitals. Villagers are often troubled by such health problems as rheumatism, typhoid, and malaria, but most of them cannot afford medical services in Mbalmayo.

"It (Chinese free consultation and treatment) relieves us, we who don't have enough means and who can't even travel to Mbalmayo (for treatment)," said 70-year-old Joseph Mbede Onambele who had been suffering from inflammation in the limbs and sometimes travels to Mbalmayo to receive medical treatment from Chinese health workers who work there.

Dieudonne Zang Mba Obele, mayor of Mbalmayo estimated that 70 percent of those who consulted and were treated free of charge were women and children.