RISK COMMUNICATION THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19
Effective outbreak communication requires strategic messaging across different outbreak phases. As ministry of health is increasingly using social media platforms to communicate in this...
TWO NEW COVID-19 CASES Bringing the total to 28
By Nelson Manneh
Health authorities yesterday 8th June 2020 confirmed the registration of two new COVID-19 cases in the Gambia bringing the total number of...
Pandemics Cause Breakdown in Social Support Systems- Says HePDO Director
By Momodou Jarju
The Executive Director of Health Promotion and Development Organisation (HePDO), Omar Ceesay, has said that during pandemics, social support systems are usually...
TOPIC: How To Follow A Healthful Diet
Prepared by: Ousman Jallow and Yassin Samateh
UNIVERSITY OF THE GAMBIA-DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
A healthful diet means eating nutrient dense foods, in the...
Reporters Visit COVID-19 Treatment Centre
By Ndey Sowe/Nelson Manneh
Eight Media houses were taken on a conducted tour of the country’s main COVID-19 treatment centre at the Sanatorium in Banjul,...
Another Covid-19 Patient Recovers Leaving three active cases
By Nelson Manneh and Ndey Sowe
Another person has yesterday been discharged from hospital following his recovery from the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Dr. Abubacarr Jagne the head...
National Assembly Health Committee Applauds Frontline Workers
Workers at the frontline to contain the spread of the Covid 19 disease pandemic in the Gambia have been applauded by the National Assembly...
Public Health Response To Covid-19, The Gambian Story
PART ONE
Modou Jallow & Fatoumata Sankareh
COVID-19 is an illness caused by a novel, or new, coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China, in late 2019....
Accessing Health Services for Children A Challenge in Rural Gambia
as mothers lament difficulties faced
MUHAMMED S. BAH (MS)
Women in rural Gambia have raised concerns over the difficulties they face in accessing health services for...
MoH Receive Consignment of Donated PPEs from UAE, Jack Ma Foundation
By Nelson Manneh
The Ministry of Health (MoH) on Thursday 21st May 2020, received two consignments of donated medical items including Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs)...
Four people recovered from COVID-19 Reducing the total number of...
By Nelson Manneh
Four COVID-19 patients have recovered from the virus leaving six others undergoing treatment.
So far, The Gambia has recorded twenty-five positive cases of...
Armitage senior school to be used as quarantine centre for COVID-19
By Nelson Manneh
Gambian Health Authorities are engaging the Board of Armitage Senior Secondary School as well as the Governor of CRR for the school...
No adherence to Safe Spacing at Brikama Market and Car Park
By Louise Jobe
Many people are still not following the Emergency Powers Regulations on safe spacing (social distancing) or gathering, especially at very busy places...
Gambia registers 25th COVID-19 Case
By Nelson Manneh
A 58-year-old woman was recently confirmed positive of the Coronavirus following her return from Senegal.
The woman, together with her husband, was on...
Kanifing Municipal Council Launches 50,000 Face Mask Initiatives
By Yankuba Jallow
Talib Ahmed Bensouda, the mayor of Kanifing Municipality on Thursday, 21st May 2020 presided over the launching ceremony of fifty thousand (50,000)...
GFA PRESS RELEASE ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ON COVID-19 What next- a...
We come back to express our very deep concern over the way and manner that a major national crisis continues to be handled without...
Kanifing East COVID-19 Taskforce Sensitize Market Vendors on Social Distancing
By Nelson Manneh
Kanifing East COVID-19 taskforce comprising the security forces embarked on a sensitization exercise to all markets within the Kanifing Municipality and engage...
EFSTH Discharge Gunshot Victim
By Mustapha Jallow
Omar Solly, who was admitted at Edward Francis Small Teaching hospital in Banjul after he sustained gunshot injury on his arm, was...
Health Ministry Responds to GMC Leader’s Allegations on Conditions at Quarantine...
By Nelson Manneh
The Ministry of Health has yesterday the 19th of May 2020 responded to the Gambia Moral Congress (GMC) Leader Mr. Mai Ahmed...
Two Patients Recover from COVID-19
By Nelson Manneh
Modou Njie, the Director of Health Promotion and Education at the Ministry of Health said Gambia registered two new recoveries of patients...
