As the Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is trickling through the country, the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) Regulatory Officer, Tijan Jallow, has disrupted all the assumptions about AKI. Speaking to journalists during a press conference held Monday at the Central Medical Stores in Kotu, Jallow acknowledged the ambient panic triggered by[Read More…]
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Health Authorities Step Up Efforts To Fight AKI
In wake of the Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) crisis, health authorities are stepping up efforts to fight the disease that has left 70 children dead. Media professionals have been urged to disseminate the correct information on AKi, and amplify the Ministry of Health’s dedicated messages. The Deputy Director of Health[Read More…]
Dr. Samateh Explains How They Establish The Link Between The Pathology & Cough Syrups
In what can be described as an anatomy of the country’s health sector, Gambia’s Minister of Health, Dr Ahmadou Lamin Samateh, has on Wednesday described how health experts were able to establish the link between the pathology developed by the affected kids and India-made cough syrups. “As the clinical correlation[Read More…]
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