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Project Aid-Gambia Donates Protective FFP2 Face Masks to Immigration, Others

Amid Discovery of the Omicron Variant in the Country By Ndey Sowe Project Aid The Gambia, an international NGO based in the country, has handed over...

The Gambia Identifies 26 Cases with Omicron variant of COVID-19

By Nelson Manneh The Ministry of Health has on Friday 7th January 2022 informed the public that Genomic sequencing of positive COVID-19 test results from The...

Gambia Registers One New COVID-19 Related Death, 34 New Cases

By Nelson Manneh The Gambia has registered one new Covid-19-related death on Friday 31st December 2021, bringing the total number of Covid related deaths in...

COVID-19: Gambia Records 9 New Cases

By Nelson Manneh The Gambia on Wednesday, 22 December registered nine new cases of the deadly coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases...

Non-Communicable Disease Unit Warns Against Sale of Single Cigarette Stick

By Ndey Sowe The Directorate of Health Promotion and Education- Non- Communicable Disease Unit (NCD) Unit under the Ministry of Health has warned all those...

Gambia Registers 27 New COVID-19 Cases

By Nelson Manneh Gambian health authorities have reported the registration of twenty-seven new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday 21st December 2021, bringing the total number of cases...

Health Foundation Offers Free Dental Care, Services to Lamin Village

By Louise Jobe Oral Health Gambia Foundation in collaboration with Lamin Health Center (NGO) has provided free toothbrushes and toothpaste to students of Babylon Lower Basic School...

Close to 80,000 Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines About to Expire

By Nelson Manneh & Ndey Sowe Gambian health authorities have on Friday, 17 December, 2021 informed the media that about eighty thousand doses of COVID-19...

Health Ministry Launches street to street COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign

By Nelson Manneh The Ministry of Health in collaboration with partners have embarked on a round of National Covid-19 vaccination campaign on Saturday, 18 December,...

Omicron Variant: Gambia Updates Entry Requirements Again

By Nelson Manneh The Ministry of Health on Wednesday, 15 December, 2021 updated the entry requirements into The Gambia in respect to COVID-19 response, effecting...

Gambia on Threshold of Registering 10,000 Covid-19 Cases

By Nelson Manneh The Gambia has registered six new cases of the corona virus, bringing the total registered cases of Covid-19 to nine thousand, nine...

First Time in 2 Months, Gambia Registers 11 New COVID-19 Cases

By Nelson Manneh Gambian health authorities have reported that The Gambia on Tuesday, 14 December registered 11 new cases of the deadly virus, bringing the...

Medical & Health Services Co-operative Credit Union Saves Over 28 Million...

By Ndey Sowe The Medical and Health Services Co-Operative Credit Union (MHSCCU) overall balance sheet grew by twenty-eight million, four hundred and thirty-eight thousand, nine...

New ‘Omicron’ Coronavirus Variant

 Health Ministry Updates Country’s Entry Requirements By Nelson Manneh Modou Njie, the Director of Health Promotion and Education at the Ministry of Health, has informed this...

Another Covid-19 Wave Expected in January 2022- Says Director of Health...

By Ndey Sowe Dr. Mustapha Bittaye, the Director of Health Services at the Ministry of Health, has disclosed on Tuesday, 30th November, 2021 that the Gambia...

MRC Gambia Findings: 5.2% Prevalence Smoking

By Ndey Sowe The Medical Research Council The Gambia (MRCG) has indicated in its finding that there is 5.2% prevalence of smoking in The Gambia,...

Health Minister Tables Bill

After the Withdrawal of Similar Bill Prepared in 2020 By: Kebba AF Touray Following the withdrawal of the National Health Insurance Bill 2020, Gambia’s Health Minister...

One COVID-19 Death Registered, Six New Cases

By Nelson Manneh The Gambia has over the weekend registered one (1) new COVID-19-related death, bringing the total to three hundred and forty-one. Six (6) new...

Gambians Challenge IEC to Ensure Proper COVID19 Measures at Polling Stations

By: Kebba AF Touray Gambians during an interview with this reporter have challenged the Independent Electoral Commission fondly called the IEC, to ensure proper COVID19...

Gambia Registers One New COVID 19 Case

By Nelson Manneh The Gambia has on Wednesday 27th October 2021 registered one new COVID 19 case, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases ever confirmed...