Indian health authorities said on Wednesday they had halted all production of New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals after a WHO report that its cough and cold syrups exported to Gambia may be linked to the deaths of dozens of children there. Known as a “pharmacy of the world”, India supplies 45% of all[Read More…]
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GPA Boss Reveals Hadim Gai Paid In Dollars
The performance of the fragile Dalasi against the more muscular dollar will not have any knock-on effect on the Hadim Gai-GPA contract as payment is made in dollars. GPA has contracted Hadim Gai to provide it a storage facility for its containers as the ports struggles with congestion. The inland[Read More…]
Snails Invade Part Of Gunjur
A neck of the wood in the Gambian coastal town of Gunjur is currently under siege after invasive snails arrived there and refusing to leave several weeks on. The creatures have been causing mayhem to crops and playing mischief to farmers since arrival almost two months ago. Farmers there have[Read More…]
India Halts Cough Syrup Production At Factory Linked To Gambia Deaths
Indian authorities have halted production of cough syrup at a factory of Maiden Pharmaceuticals, a state minister said on Wednesday, after a WHO report that the medicine may be linked to the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia. The health minister in Haryana state, Anil Vij, told Reuters partner[Read More…]
Türkiye Builds Medical Oxygen Plant In Gambia
The plant, which is the first one of its kind for hospitals in The Gambia, will meet the daily oxygen needs of the hospital with its daily oxygen generation capacity of 100 cylinders. The opening ceremony held for the plant at Ndemban Hospital in the coastal town of Bakau, 16km[Read More…]
Gambia Police Link Child Deaths To Cough Syrup Imported By U.S. Firm
The deaths of 69 children from acute kidney injury in Gambia is linked to four cough syrups made in India and imported into the West African country via a U.S.-based pharmaceutical company, the Gambian police said in a preliminary investigation report on Tuesday. World Health Organization (WHO) investigators had already[Read More…]
Power Purchase Interest Forum Ends With Commitments To Renewable Energy
As Gambia is making giant strides towards clean energy, the Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Abdoulie Jobe, has reiterated Tuesday government commitment to the150 MWp West Africa Power Pool (WAPP) regional solar power park project to be implemented in Soma, Lower River Region (LRR). In his element, Minister Jobe reminded[Read More…]
Gambia Explores Ways To Ignite Neighbors ‘Power Purchase Interest’
Experts from public utility company in Guinea, Senegal and Guinea Bissau have jetted into the West African nation to explore ways to ignite power purchase interest as a major solar park project is gradually taking shape. “For NAWEC as the national electricity utility, our mission is to ensure the provision[Read More…]
Calls For Justice Intensify As Health Minister Refuses To Step Down
Campaigners are pushing ahead with plan to amplify calls for justice for the 69 children who died of acute kidney injury (AKI) as the Minister of Health, Dr. Ahmadou Lamin Samateh, refuses to throw in the towel. “As a campaign, we are a group of sovereign citizens who are determined[Read More…]
‘It Is Uncalled For To Use Abusive Utterances Against The President’ – Amie Bojang-Sissoho
I join Gambians to express my condolences to families of the children whose deaths are associated with Acute Kidney Injuries – AKI, which has risen to 69. Understandably so, people want answers on the possible causes, the culprits and the desire to ensure that justice is done. It is not,[Read More…]
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