(JollofNews) – 56 field epidemiologists have graduated last Thursday after a three-month intensive course that provided them with the ability to detect diseases before it spreads. The graduates of the Field Epidemiology Training Program-Frontline (FEPT-F) are part of cohort 3 and 4 US-based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)[Read More…]
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Gambia: Baba Jerreh Foundation Donates To Brikama Hospital
(JollofNews) – A Gambian registered charitable foundation, the Baba Jerreh Foundation, has donated surgical equipment including gloves, bandages, antiseptics, syringes, needles, alcohol swaps and tourniquets to Brikama District Hospital. The equipment was delivered to officials of the hospital by Musukoi Sanyang, a Farababanta born and a former Community Health Nurse[Read More…]
UNFPA Visits Family Planning Community Based Distributors In Foni Kassange
(JollofNews) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in the Gambia last week led a team of reporters from the Network of Journalist on Reproductive Health, Population and Development on a media field visit to their intervention sites. The visit was aim at giving the reporters a chance to see[Read More…]