Charity Foundation, Partners Provide Free Eye Screening
By Makutu Manneh
Ahlu-Bait Rashu Foundation and Gui-Mam Eye Care provided free eye screening for hundreds of Gambians at Farato on Saturday, 16 April.
After screening...
‘Maternal Mortality Ranges Above 1,000 Deaths’
Dr. Jah
By: Kebba AF Touray
Dr. Hawanatu Jah, the Coordinator of PRECISE Clinical, said the rate of maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa ranges between 300...
Smoking Remains Big Public Menace Despite Ban In Gambia
By Mariama Marong
Modou Njie, a resident of New Jeshwang, has been smoking for over 25 years. He said he did not encounter any health...
13-year-old girl solicits assistance for overseas treatment
By: Aja Musu Bah-Daffeh
A 13-year-old girl and native of Jarra Soma, Kumba Jallow, is soliciting immediate assistance for overseas treatment. Kumba is suffering from...
Health Experts Explain Why Gambians Should Frequent Hospitals For Regular Check-ups
By Momodou Jarju
In The Gambia, going for check-ups is like a taboo to many people. Many Gambians only visit hospitals when they feel sick...
Another Surge in COVID-19 Cases
(450 cases)
By Nelson Manneh
The Gambia has registered four hundred and fifty cases of the deadly coronavirus during the past week bringing the total number...
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...
