Medicine Control Agency, Pharmaceutical Association Explain Testing of Drugs from SRA...
By Nelson Manneh
The Medicine Control Agency of the Gambia and the Pharmaceutical Association of The Gambia have informed Foroyaa that drugs that are imported...
Merck Foundation provided over 1700 scholarships to young doctors – Official
By Nelson Manneh
Prof. Dr. Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp, Chairman of both the Executive Board of E.Merck KG and Merck Foundation Board of Trustees, said on Wednesday...
Bundung Maternal Hospital’s Income Increased by D8 Million in 2018 Fiscal...
By: Kebba AF Touray
The income of the Bundung Maternal and Child Health Hospital (BMCHH) has increased by eight million Dalasi (D8 Million) from 2017...
World Lung Day: MRCG Conducts Sensitisation on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
By NdeySowe
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MRCG-LSHTM) on Monday, 25 September conducted sensitisation...
FSQA: Mayonnaise recycled for cooking oil not fit for consumption
By Mustapha Jallow
Mamodou Bah, the Director General for the Food Safety and Quality Authority (FSQA) on Monday said the small buckets of mayonnaise that...
Childhood Vaccination Delays in Gambia – MRCG New Study
By Mustapha Jallow
Researchers, doctors and experts from the Medical Research Council Unit, the Gambia (MRCUG) of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine...
Dr. Samateh says Deaths Of 70 Children Was Due To AKI...
By Nelson Manneh
The Minister of Health, Dr Ahmad Lamin Samateh, has finally admitted and confirmed to the media, that the deaths of seventy children...
MCA Appoints ‘Quntrol’ Lab to Test Imported Pharmaceutical Products
By Nelson Manneh
The spokesperson of the Pharmaceutical Association of The Gambia, Ma Hawa Njie, yesterday disclosed to Foroyaa that the Medical Control Agency (MCA)...
Twenty-Six Thousand Gambians Estimated To Be Living With HIV
By Assan Bah
The UNAIDS has reported an estimate of nearly twenty-six thousand (26,000) of HIV patients, out of which only 14,000 people living with...
Enforcement of Tobacco Control Act 2016 In Progress
By Nelson Manneh
A joint enforcement by some officers regarding the Tobacco Control Act in the Gambia is in high gear in the provinces as...
Union Aid Foundation Sensitises On Menstrual, Sexual Reproductive Health
By Makutu Manneh
Union Aid Foundation The Gambia (UAID), has sensitised two hundred adolescent and school going girls and boys, on menstrual and sexual reproductive...
Sharab Hospital Opens New Obstetrics, Gynaecology, Pediatric Complex
By Nelson Manneh
The Board of Directors and staff of Sharab hospital have launched a new Obstetrics and Gynaecology complex in Bakau on Saturday 21st...
EFSTH Dialysis Unit Express Gratitude to Trust Bank Limited
By: Bubacarr Gaye
Shortly after receiving medical items worth D300,000 from Trust Bank Gambia Limited, the Dialysis Unit of Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital on...
Lawmakers Say Government Should Bear Responsibility For AKI Deaths
By: Kebba AF Touray
Members of the National Assembly, while debating on the AKI Report submitted by the Assembly’s Health Committee on the just concluded...
NA Health Committee Recommends Legal Action Against Maiden Pharmaceuticals
By: Kebba AF Touray
The National Assembly Select Committee on Health, has recommended legal action by the Government of the Gambia, against Maiden Pharmaceutical Company,...
Sharab Hospital, Direct Aid To Offer Free Surgical Operations
By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx)
Sharab Hospital in collaboration with ‘Direct Aid’, a Charitable Organization, is expected to offer free surgical operations to forty patients, at...
DOES THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAVE SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO RECOMMEND THE PROSECUTION...
The Gambian public has been waiting for the conclusive findings made after the allegation that paracetamol syrup made by Maiden Pharmaceutical in India and...
Gratitude, Much Affection Towards Cuban Health Professionals
Banjul, Dec 18th:-Moving words of praise received from the management of the Central Hospital of Banjul a group of members of the Cuban Medical...
HAS THE SHORTAGE OF DRUGS BEEN AVOIDED?
After to the special measure to avoid drug shortage by releasing drugs which were already imported for sale it is important to note whether...
WHEN WILL THE GOVERNMENT COMMENCE THE BUILDING OF A LABORATORY FOR...
After linking the deaths of babies to a medicinal syrup, the government had to send samples to France and Switzerland to ascertain the safety...
