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Current Feed ContentGambia To Celebrate African Traditional Medicine DayThe National Traditional Medicine Programme at the Department of State for Health and Social Welfare, in collaboration with the Association of Traditional Healers of The Gambia, will on the 31st of August celebrate African Traditional Medicine Day. In a press release send to Health Matters yesterday, the manager of the National Traditional Medicine Programme at DOSH, Bubakar Sillah, stated that theme of this years celebration is “The Role of Traditional Healers in Primary Healthcare”. Mr....Re: Works & Construction: Road, A remarkable transformationEditor, Bravo Daily Observer, on the above article. It sent a welcome chill of gratitude through my entire Gambia-loving spine, when I read the article online. It just goes further to show the administrations genuine dedication to improving the common lot of the Gambian populace. Indeed, as rightly penned, road networks, electricity, education, healthcare and jobs do form the basic foundation of any develop society. Seeing such endeavours being tackled (as the proverbial bull by the...CONGO: State urged to improve “disastrous” healthcare systemUnder-funding and lack of political will have left Congo’s healthcare system in a “disastrous” state, according to a human rights group, which has called on the government to match its public declarations with action. “Today we appeal for things to change in the healthcare sector because there is a wide gulf between the authorities’ speeches and reality,” Cephas Germain Ewangui, head of the Association Panafricaine Thomas Sankara (APTS), said on 10 December, as he released the results of his...SWAZILAND: Rural clinic gives AIDS patients a lifelineThab'sile Nkambule, 29, struggles with her breathing and endures crippling headaches, chronic diarrhoea and weakness that make carrying water from the stream to her homestead in rural Swaziland her most difficult task, yet this mother of three says she is one of the lucky ones. "I am getting better; I know why I am sick," she said, sitting in the Sigombeni Clinic, a Red Cross facility 20 minutes north of Manzini, Swaziland's central commercial hub. Nkambule knows her HIV status. Despite...SOUTH AFRICA: Too many babies dieEvery year almost 23,000 South African babies die in their first month of life, yet one in five of these deaths could be avoided with better education, and relatively inexpensive and easily implemented changes in healthcare, says a new study by the Medical Research Council (MRC). "The bad news is that, according to the report, 'one in five deaths could have been clearly avoided', and inequalities are also highlighted, with avoidable deaths being twice as common in rural areas," said Joy Lawn,... |
