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Isatou Sey a native of Wellingara  and age 35 years is   according to a source from the Royal Victorial Teaching hospital management board,  suffering from abdominal pain and vaginal bleed. she is to undergo a medical treatment overseas but is a poor lady. She is now asking for help from philantrophists, NGOs and government to come  to her aid. she is urging any one who can help to come on board because she really need support inorder to go for the overseas treatment. Anybody willing to help...

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Lamin Fatty, the seven-month old son of Sainabou Nyass of Nema Kunku, is suffering from Lumbar Meningom yelocale. According to a medical report from the RVTH, he cannot be treated locally. Sainabou Nyass is a poor woman and needs help from any capable person or organisation in order to save the life of her child.  Anybody willing to help can call Sainabou Nyass on 7903141.

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Omar Kebba Joof, a six-year-old boy from Latrikunda Sabiji, has been suffering from respiratory difficulties since he was one week old. And now a medical report from the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital recommends that the young boy be airlifted for overseas treatment. The medical report from the hospital reveals that Omar suffers from active pericardium, and that a thrill at the mitral area silhouette has enlarged. The young boy is also said to have systolic ejection murmurs in the mitral, an...

Anti-Tobacco Alliance, “Waste of time, a recipe for avoidable suffering”

Advocates from 22 countries around Africa recently concluded an anti-Tobacco conference in the Nigerian Capital of Abuja. The three-day conference, according to the Gambian delegate, Mr Sambujang Conteh a representative of the NGO-CSO Network on Tobacco Alliance, made a passionate call on African delegates due to embark on a World Health Organisation conference for the parties to the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, slated for November later this year, in Durban, South Africa. In a...

Child, 7, needs urgent overseas treatment

One Samba Bah of Bansang, a seven-year old boy, is in urgent need of overseas treatment. Suffering from a cancer on his left eye, he has been, for a very long time, in a lot of pain. According to the medical report, Samba Bah was admitted to the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in Banjul on the 30th of June, 2008 and is still under admission. He was referred from the regional eye hospital to the Paediatric Neurology Clinic with a six-month history of painful progressive haemorrhagic destructive...

The Zimbabwe issue

Almost all those who call for the departure of Comrade Mugabe are bound by the same argument of the precariousness of the state of affairs of the country, in terms of the suffering his people are enduring. Then, there is also this uncharted issue of overstaying that some people tend to cling onto, although this is not quite a plausible point to bicker on. Regarding this last point, the common counter argument is that if the constitution provides for an unlimited term of office, so be it....

Lyrics Decisions based on law might be better

Most, if not all of the countries in turmoil around the world are suffering from the relics of unrestrained behaviors of their own. Such societies undergo groundings for their eventual annihilation, long before the ultimate happens. Such inadvertent planning takes various forms. The people, especially the young, will have been exposed to all forms of meanness. Greediness, selfishness, disregard for authority, by taking the law into their hands, are the order of the day in such societies. And...

Adieu, Beloved Comrade!

It is with sadness that we say adieu to our beloved Comrade Mugabe. He is like a much loved grandparent suffering from cancer, surrounded by 30 loving grandchildren who love him and want him on this earth. But they would also be grateful if peaceful death would end his suffering. As with the suffering of Shakespeare’s old King Lear, death sometimes takes too long to come for those who love the dying. Or maybe we should use, not the analogy of cancer but that of deliberate criminal food...

SIB Celebrates 21st Anniversary

Soroptimist International of Banjul (SIB),a worldwide organisation for women in Management and the profession and aglobal voice for women through advocacy and action last Saturday celebrated its21styear anniversary at a Fundraising Dinner heldat the Jerma Beach Hotel and Resort.The event, which was geared towards raising funds for thedifferent programmes and projects being under taken by Soroptimist particularlyin the area of Education and Health, also featured a raffle draw with...

Cardiomyopathy patient needs assistance

Arret Dampha, a 14 year old native of Sankuley Kunda and grade seven student of Janjangbureh Junior Secondary School, is in need of financial assistance to facilitate her passage for an overseas treatment. According to a medical report from the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital Management Board, Arret is suffering from cardiomyopathy and also experiencing swollings on her feet, abdomen and face, resulting to her inability to eat properly. Sireng Baldeh, Arret’s mother, said that her daughter...