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...
Acting Health Promotion DirectorUpdates On COVID-19 Vaccination
By: Kebba AF Touray
Sanjally Trawally, the new Acting Director of Health Promotion, said an estimated total of 84 thousand school children both in conventional...
Response to COVID-19 Vaccination Continues to Decline
By Nelson Manneh
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with partners recently commenced another countrywide COVID-19 vaccination campaign which started from the 11th and will...
Philanthropist Provides Scan Machine To Reduce Suffering of Antenatal Mothers in...
By Mariama Marong
Sukuta Health Center had been grappling with a lack of medical equipment for many years. Philanthropist Basiru Barrow, a native of Sukuta, has...
Millions More Children To Benefit From Malaria Vaccine
By Ndey Sowe
With malaria as one of the biggest killers of children under 5, the world’s first vaccine against the malaria parasite is a...
Health Promotion Director Says National Health Insurance Is For Everybody
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Director of Health Promotion and Education Modou Njai, said the National Health Insurance Scheme is for everybody.
Njai said this in...
Stakeholders Commence National Consultation on Sexuality Education for Adolescents, Young People
By Makutu Manneh
The government of the Gambia in partnership with UNFPA, UNAIDS and UNESCO have commenced a three-day national consultation forum on reproductive health...
Business Person Hit By Bullet In CRR Attack Discharged From Hospital 
By Mustapha Jallow
Mustapha Faal, a 56-year-old Gambian-Mauritania who was recently hit by a bullet during an attack by armed robbers at Sami Tenda village...
Psychiatric Hospital Reports Increase In Admission, Treatment of Drug Induced Psychosis...
By Nelson Manneh
The Minister of Interior, Seyaka Sonko, has said that the country's only psychiatric hospital has reported a significant increase in the admission...
UNFPA Launches Nationwide Campaign to End Obstetric Fistula
By Ndey Sowe
Obstetric Fistula is one of the most severe childbirth injuries affecting women globally, resulting from prolonged and obstructed labour without access to...
