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Current Feed ContentDOSH Sensitise Imams on Good Hygiene and SanitationTheDepartment of State for Health and Social Welfare last Sunday sensitised over100 imams across the country on good hygiene practices and sanitation at the SupremeIslamic Council headquarters in Kanifing. Speaking atthe opening, Imam Momodou Lamin Touray, president of the Supreme IslamicCouncil, described the meeting as timely noting that the imams can play animportant role in the area of health information to the general public. Imam Tourayurged the imams to use their sermons in the various...NOOBE condemns illegal migrationAbubacarr Jabbi, the chairperson of the National Organisation for Operation No Backway to Europe (NOOBE) has said that his organisation will continue to sensitise people especially the youths on illegal migration which is on the increase. Speaking to the Daily Observer recently at his office in Bundung, Mr Jabbi said since the inception of the organisation some months ago, they have worked relentlessly to educate the youths about the dangers related to the mass exodus of people enroute to...NAPSA to embark on nationwide tourThe National Patriotic Students’ Association (NAPSA), will on Sunday, July 7, 2008, embark on a nationwide tour of schools. The aim of the tour is to sensitise students on the President’s back to the land call, and also to discuss with them issues concerning students and young people such as patriotism for national development, discipline in schools, quality education, illegal migration, among others. Speaking to the Young Observer anchorman, Modou Alieu Jallow, chairperson of NAPSA, said the...Journalists briefed on epilepsyThe Gambia Epilepsy Association, on Tuesday, organised a press briefing at its headquarters in Serrekunda to sensitise journalists about epilepsy. Speaking at the briefing, Anthony Zimba, the executive secretary of the International Bureau of Epilepsy said that epilepsy is a condition and not a disease. He added that, most people think that epilepsy is caused by a demon, or is an African disease and has to be treated with local medicine. “Epilepsy has many causes. Some are caused by infection...Rural poverty and environmental degradationAllow me a space in your widely read newspaper to express my views about how rural poverty and environmental degradation affects the socio-economic life of the rural people. Cutting the remaining trees and cultivating forest lands continuously will only worse the hardship that the rural people are experiencing. This is what extension workers, especially the foresters continue to sensitise farmers on, but they remain to depend on the foresters to sensitise farmers, but they remain to depend on...Bed nets dipping registers success in CRRThe National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) had over the years instituted several strategies in preventing and controlling the prevalence of malaria in the country. The use of insecticide treated nets and the distribution of long lasting nets to the communities have proven to be very effective in the fight against malaria. The latest of this kind of programme is the national mass bed nets dipping week-long campaign held in all the regions in the country which concluded last week. In Central... |
