ChildFund-
The Gambia has extended magnanimity to the Ministry of Health and Social
Welfare through its Gifts-In-Kind program, with the donation of a 20-foot
container full of MAP international medical supplies and pharmaceuticals.
The
international child funding agency has also provided 500 laboratory coats and
masks to the said Ministry. The medical supplies and pharmaceuticals are meant
to complement the agency’s programs in a bid to improve the lives of the
deprived, excluded and vulnerable children in The Gambia.
Country
director, Musu Kuta Komma said the medical items seek to complement the efforts
of the government in the crucial sectors of health and education.
She
reminded that COVID-19 as also referred to, is taking its toll on countries
around the world, which prompted the need for more masks especially during this
critical period.
She
said it is their conviction that for children to grow and achieve their full
potentials, they must even before their birth, have access to much-needed
medical supplies and high-quality services.
ChildFund-The
Gambia, she went on, would continue to support health care delivery in the
Gambia.
‘Our
intervention in the health sector is that the identification of support needs
is never done in isolation.’
Musa
Mbye, member of the ChildFund advisory board, thanked ChildFund-The Gambia for
the gesture, which he said, has came to the Ministry of health’s rescue and the
government, assuring that the medical items and the masks would go a long way
in strengthening the health system in The Gambia.
Director
of pharmaceutical services, Babanding Sabally said one of the critical elements
of health dispensation is the availability of supplies. The quality of health
delivery, he observed, is usually measured based on the availability of supplies.
He
thus assured that the supply would be put to good use so as to ensure that it
reaches the target population and those who need it most benefit from it.
