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Aid Effectiveness Workshop Wraps up

A one-day workshop on aid effectiveness ended recently at TANGO head office in Kanifing. The forum which brought together various stakeholders including NGO officials and journalists was funded by Action Aid The Gambia. Addressing the closing ceremony, Action Aid Policy Manager Lamin Nyangado said the workshop was meant to raise awareness among civil society organisations and other stakeholders about aid effectiveness and the Paris Agenda, build or strengthen common understanding about donor...

Patients clean SK Hospital

At least 150 people, including 137 HIV/Aids patients currently admitted in the president’s treatment programme Saturday cleaned up the Serrekunda Health centre and its vicinity. The patients were enjoined by some of the neighbours in the exercise that rejuvenated the outlook of the hospital and its environment, ahead of the rainy season. Dr Tamsir Mbowe, the director general of the Presidential Medical Team and director of Health and Medical Services, led the patients in the exercise that last...

Dr Mbowe: Jammeh’s treatment reduces burden on health facilities

The efficacy of Dr Alhaji Yahya Jammeh’s herbal treatment on HIV/Aids, asthma, hypertension, diabetes, and infertility has dwindled the emergence of patients at outpatient departments of health facilities across the country. It has also lifted the huge cost involved in the procurement of drugs for the department of state for health and social welfare since the start of the Gambian leader’s herbal treatment a year ago. In an interview with the Daily Observer, Dr Tamsir Mbowe, director general...