“If you walk around our Obstetric Gynecology Department, you'll notice that when an ambulance arrives with a patient, they would walk or they are quickly taken to the labour ward or operating room. This is why, right now, we really need a special area for emergencies,” he said.
“This would help ensure that when pregnant women arrive, they can get the care they need right away without any hassle. It’s all about making sure they feel safe and supported during a critical time.”
He made this call to the government and private development partners to support the hospital for effective medical attention.
“Another issue we are faced with is our A&E. It is no news that sometimes we have patients lay on the floor. This is because, the hospital is the only teaching and referral hospital. We are overwhelmed with patients most times. And then we know in the periphery, we don't have the capacity to keep patients there, therefore, the inflow of patients to our hospital is huge.”
“This automatically makes it difficult to organise or do a proper organisation to know the number of patients you receive day to day on average because everybody is sending,” he laments.
“If we have our A&E annex that we can use to have a hold up, will decrease the congestion and patients lying on the floor.”
“Our theaters also are evolving, he said.
“It's therefore fitting that the pediatric side is looked at. The pediatric emergencies, pediatric surgery theater and our ICU services also need enhancement,”
“When the ICU services are enhanced in a patient hospital, it makes everybody safe.”
Dr Jallow highlighted that their main task is to provide valuable and affordable services to the Gambian people. “As such, what we could do is to make sure the things we do are revolving and if we are running a radiology, we want to make it revolving alongside our labs.”
“We are open to very genuine partnership and collaborations. We welcome everyone who wants to partner with us to help us be able to deliver a very good health care; very good postgraduate activities, and a very good activity that any referral hospital will do.”
