Gambia: Nurses Bantaba Extends Benevolence to Serrekunda Health Centre
[The Point] The Original Nurses Bantaba Foundation, a charity last Friday presented non-medical supplies to the maternity ward of Serrekunda Health Centre. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 31, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Health Ministry Vows to Deal With 'Dubious Practices' On E-Birth
[The Point] Modou Njai, the director of Health Promotion and Education has stated that the Ministry of Health has learned with "dismay" the conduct of certain officers in the ongoing National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), and electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (eCRVS) as dubious, adding anyone found wanting will be dealt with. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 30, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Over 200 Teachers Undergoing Comprehensive Health Education Training
[The Point] At least 210 teachers are currently undergoing training in the trainer's program on Comprehensive Health Education (CHE) at the NaNA Complex in Bakau. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 30, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: EFSTH, KGH And Others Boosted to Address Shortage of Oxygen
[The Point] Banjul Oxygen, one of the leading oxygen producers and a Gambian owned company has extended its benevolent gesture to the county's main referral hospital - Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH) in Banjul and the Kanifing General Hospital (KGH) in the Kanifing Municipality with the donation of 35 bottles of oxygen. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 30, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Paying a Price - On Monkeypox Outbreak!
[The Point] Vaccines and anti-virals for monkeypox must be made available in endemic countries in Africa. In three weeks since the first case of monkeypox infection was confirmed on May 7 in the U.K. in a person who had just arrived from Nigeria (where the outbreak has been continuing since September 2017) the virus has spread to at least 21 countries and infected 226 people, mainly in Europe and North America. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 29, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Sare Gubu Basirou Youth Offers Free Medical Services to Over 400 People
[The Point] Sare Gubu Basirou Students Association (SGSA) in partnership with Sare Gubu Diaspora and the Village Youth Development Association (SAGYDA) last Saturday offered free medical services to over 477 people in the village and its satellite communities. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 26, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Sare Gubu Basirou Residents Want Weekly Health Facility to Standard Health Centre
[The Point] The residents of Sare Gubu Basirou village in the Sandu District, Upper River Region (URR), have called on the government through the Ministry of Health to transform their weekly health facility to a standard health centre. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 26, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Gambia Female Teachers Take COVID Jabs to Protect Students
[The Point] Some Gambian female teachers in an interview disclosed to this medium that among the reasons they took the Covid -19 vaccines was to contribute their quota in stopping the spread of the virus by protecting themselves and their students from its transmission. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 24, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Soaring E-Waste Affects the Health of Millions of Children
[The Point] Effective and binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide whose health is jeopardized by the informal processing of discarded electrical or electronic devices according to a new ground-breaking report from the World Health Organization. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 24, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Philanthropist Provides Scan Machine to Reduce Suffering of Antenatal Mothers in Sukuta
[Foroyaa] Sukuta Health Center had been grappling with a lack of medical equipment for many years. Philanthropist Basiru Barrow, a native of Sukuta, has provided his community with a scanning machine for pregnant women to reduce the burden of antenatal mothers suffering at the health centre. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - August 23, 2022 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Risk factors for recurrent violent injuries among African women in The Gambia - Bass P, Yu WY, Chen SJ, Sanyang E, Lin MR.
INTRODUCTION: Violence against women remains a major public health concern in African countries. We conducted a matched case-control study to identify risk factors for recurrent violent injuries among African women in The Gambia, a small West African count... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 23, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Gambia: Standard Bureau, EBA Project to Standardise Food Products
[The Point] The Gambia Standards Bureau (TGSB), whose mandate includes ensuring standards in both imported and local products in partnership with the Ecosystem-based Adaptation Project (EBA Project), recently convened a forum to devise means and ways of standardising three food products namely: Baobab, Honey, and Maringo to be fit for international standards and sales. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 23, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Govt Committed to Vaccinate Elderly, Differently Abled
[The Point] The Gambia government through the Ministry of Health says it's committed to vaccinating the most vulnerable people in the community such as the elderly and differently abled individuals across the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 23, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: MoH, WHO Hold Joint Budget Planning Session
[The Point] The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) Gambia office last Wednesday held a two-day joint technical budget planning session at the Tamala Hotel. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 23, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Oyster Harvesters Confident in COVID-19 Vaccines Efficiency
[The Point] Women oyster harvesters at Sarro, Denton Bridge, have disclosed that they have confidence in the vaccines being used on people by health officials in the quest to curb the spread of the deadly corona virus. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 23, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
