Together with Sam Mangwana, le Karmapa denounced in this song entitled "Mama Yemo" the bad conditions of taking care and insalubrity at the general Hospital of reference of Kinshasa, ex- Mama Yemo. In a verse, he even invites "not to lead him to Mama Yemo if he is sick because one prescribed there unsuitable drugs and syringes to consumption leaving from the doctors’ pockets".
Like Franco Luambo Makiadi of current time, he denounces also the kitchen made by the patients in the corridors of the hospital building, the lack of the electrical current, the corpses in a putrefaction state in the mortuary, the cats and the rats which nourish navels of new-born babies… Le Karmapa even says to prefer to be made look after by means of traditional medicine at his place instead of going to "Mama Yemo" because of bad taking care and of very advanced decay state in which this hospital is.
Denunciations which did not like the Order of the doctors of the town of Kinshasa- The provincial president of the Order of the doctors, Bula Elvis, denounced this song, April 19, 2020, in an interview in Karibu Variétés broadcasted in the RTNC. Hospital which, according to him, "served and continues to render great services close to the population; it receives the poor ones of any township."Bula Elvis advises the artist to consult the Order of the doctors to see whether he will be able to prune some texts considered to be" offensive ".
At the side of the general Hospital of reference of Kinshasa, one evokes a kind of settlement of accounts on behalf of the artist. For the directing doctor of the ex-Mama Yemo, nothing to tell, Doctor Clément Mbaki thinks that the singer settles accounts at his hospital. On Top Congo radio, he affirms that Le Karmapa "had brought a member of his family to the hospital. He was unable to make the examinations which one asked for him nor to buy the prescribed drugs. The care was not made in an optimal way, for lack of means.Thus he had promised to vilify us ".
The musician, for his part, ensures not to have missed means to ensure the health care of his hospitalized brother. Only that the conditions observed on the ground inspired this song. He affirms not to attack the doctors but it is a form of cry of alarm launched towards the authorities to come to assistance of this hospital.
"From Mama Yemo" to the "haunted House"…
Le Karmapa as for him, denied on this position of the Order of the doctors of Kinshasa. "" I used the satire with the name of ``Mama Yemo '' to denounce the degradation state of our health system. This situation, you will find it in almost all the big hospitals of the State, in particular, at Clinique kinoise, Sanatorium, the hospital of Matete, etc ", he explained. But to be short with this polemic, he announces to change the title of the song which will pass from "Mama Yemo" to the "haunted House"
What still does not satisfy the accused hospital since a complaint against the artist would be in gestation.Whereas that which calls the Prince of congolese Rumba persists and signs: his song is only a sensitizing, a call to the congolese State so that it gives means to the professionals of health so that they can take care of the people and that bad practices cease. Except the change of the title of the song, the artist clings to the contents until the things change, according to him.
Corneille Kinsala N’soki