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PRESIDENT JAMMEH TREATS 536 ASTHMATIC PATIENTS

Professor Alhaji Yahya  A JJ Jammeh, President of the Republic of The Gambia, yesterday afternoon, treated some 536 asthmatic patients, Gambians and non-Gambians alike. These patients constitutes the 3rd batch of asthmatic patients to have been treated by President Jammeh. The treatment session was done at the State House in Banjul. Speaking to journalists during the session, Dr Tamsir Mbowe, director general of the Presidential Medical Treatment Programme, who also doubles as the director of...

SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: The politics of cholera

JOHANNESBURG Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - The number of people being treated for cholera in the northern town of Musina, near South Africa's border with Zimbabwe, is falling, but the situation remains serious. "It's difficult to say the situation is under control, as it is difficult to trace the patients once they are released; we don't know where they go, we don't know whether they take risks," John Shiburi, a South African Red Cross Society official in Musina, told IRIN. According...

Little Jainaba’s Progress

Editor’s Note: Readers have written to ask about Little Jai’s progress. 1. Operation on the large tumour has been completely successful. She now jumps about and plays with everyone, whereas she used to hide fom everybody. 2. The second eye is being treated with drugs and an operation will follow. 3. Of her D160,000 readers contributed, only D20,000 has been used so far. My deputy Andrew Dacosta is a trustee and keeps an eagle eye on her money. Donors are most welcome to drop into the daily...

Taiwan mobile medic chief gives pledges

The head of the Taiwan International Cooperation Mobile Medical Team to Banjul has pledged to explore possibilities of engaging major hospitals in his Asian-Pacific island state to assist Gambian hospitals with biomedical equipment and other useful supplies. Dr Jefferey Chan, who headed an 11-member delegation to provide humanitarian medical services at Sulayman Junkung Hospital in Bwiam and AFPRC Hospital in Farafenni, made this pledge in an exclusive interview with the Daily Observer, during...

19 HIV/AIDS PATIENTS DISCHARGED

On Wednesday 24 October, 2007, 19 cured HIV/AIDS patients were discharged after they have successfully undergone President Jammeh’s herbal treatment for a period of nine weeks. The HIV/AIDS treatment has yet again recorded another breakthrough. Blood samples sent to foreign laboratory for the 4th batch of patients who were under the treatment programme were released yesterday at State House, Banjul . ...