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ENVIRONMENT: Efforts to combat air pollution

Efforts to combat air pollution move into high gear Air pollution is a great concern to health and the environment of The Gambia. To tackle this challenging and imperative task on cleaning our air, the Departement of State for Forestry and the Environment, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the National Environment Agency (NEA) have convened last week a workshop centred on the theme : ‘‘The sulphur reduction in vehicule fuels in The Gambia.’’ As our country boomed...

Act With Great Haste to Combat Illness and Stigma

It is very encouraging to see that the Department of State for Health and particularly the Secretary of State Dr. Malick Njie are taking such a proactive role in tackling the issue of mental health in The Gambia. Last week The Gambia joined the rest of the world to observe World Mental Health Day. The theme for this years World Mental Health Day was ‘Making Mental Health a Global Priority; scaling up services through citizen advocacy and action’. Speaking at the occasion, Dr. Njie stated the...

Ex-Supt Sanyang dies

Reliable reports reaching the Daily Observer indicate that ex-Superintendent Manlafi Sanyang, a former head of Government Vehicles Control Unit at State House, died yesterday in the morning. The circumstances surrounding the death of ex-Supt Sanyang could not be confirmed at the time of going to press last night. However, sources close to the bereaved family said ex-Supt Sanyang was taken to the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH) when he was attacked by a brief illness at the State Central...

Escaped prisoner convicted

Principal magistrate BY Camara of Banjul Magistrates Court, yesterday convicted and sentenced one Fabala Njie to one year, four months imprisonment, after the accused had pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful escape from lawful custody, contrary to the laws of The Gambia. Police prosecutor, Sub - inspector Sanyang, narrated the facts of the case after the accused had taken his plea. According to the facts, the accused, on 3rd March 2008, whilst serving one-year jail term at the Jeshwang...

BMC holds symposium on “Doctoring Together”

Dr Musa Touray the founder of Bijilo Medical Centre, last Wednesday hosted a symposium at the Centre, on the theme ‘Doctoring Together’ geared towards bringing together doctors and medical practitioners in The Gambia in a quest to improve and provide quality medical service. In his opening remarks, Dr Mustapha Bittaye of RVTH stated that it’s important for doctors in the medical profession to come together and work towards improving the quality and confidence in the medical sector. For his...

Captain Solomon Jammeh Passes Away

Captain Solomon Jammeh, another senior military officer close to President Jammeh, died on Saturday after a sudden illness, accentuating the concern of some members of the public about the uncanny similarity and frequency in the death of officers forming part of an elite unit. The late Capt. Jammeh reportedly fell sick and was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced clinically dead after some hours. The deceased is reported to have returned from Nigeria about two weeks ago, where...

ANGOLA: New clues to mystery illness

The number of people affected by a mystery illness that has already claimed the lives of 4 children on the outskirts of the Angolan capital, Luanda, has climbed to 284. Contaminated food is a suspect but authorities are still in the dark as to the exact cause. "More than 80 percent [of cases] are children, and the four deaths that happened were kids," Vita Vemba, Luanda's provincial health director, told IRIN. The children who had succumbed to the illness were already weakened by high levels...

ANGOLA: Mystery disease strikes 200, kills four

An undiagnosed disease that has affected 200 and left at least four dead in Cacuaco, about 20km north of the Angolan capital, Luanda, has health organisations scrambling to identify the illness. The first cases were reported in early October. "What we know is that new cases keep arriving at the hospital," Balbina Felix, disease control officer at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Luanda, told IRIN. According to the Municipal Hospital in Cacuaco, 20 new cases per day have been reported...

ZAMBIA: Mental illness sufferers shunned and isolated

Rising rates of mental and emotional illness in Zambia are being met with growing levels of stigma and discrimination, with sufferers often isolated by their communities. Nora Mweemba, a health information promotion officer for the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Zambia, told IRIN, "Mental health problems are on the increase among the population in Zambia, mostly because of the socio-economic difficulties that exist in this country - HIV/AIDS, poverty, joblessness - they all precipitate...

GRTS Saikou Dibba Passes Away

News of the sudden death of Mr. Saikou Dibba of GRTS has sent shock-waves in the community especially in the Gambian media. The news of the untimely departure of Mr. Dibba was announced on the Gambia Radio and Television Services (GRTS) yesterday. According to sources close to this paper, Mr. Dibba, an assistant producer with GRTS passed away in the early hours of Tuesday at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital following a brief illness. The deceased joined GRTS in January 2005 as an...