Modou Alieu Jallow and Lamin S. Minteh were selected by the Ministry of Health of their country to begin these postgraduate studies on the Caribbean island, where they will travel soon.
Graduates of doctors in the Venezuelan branch of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), and after practicing in the Gambian regions of Basse and Bansang, both doctors will deepen their knowledge to become future specialists.
In a meeting held on Tuesday with the Cuban ambassador here, Rubén G. Abelenda, Jallow and Minteh thanked the Caribbean nation for its eternal solidarity with this continent, and particularly with the people of this West African state.
They manifested their commitment to become good specialists to serve their compatriots in the future, and to raise the names of their country and Cuba.
Both sister countries have maintained a close collaboration in the field of health for more than two decades, translated into the uninterrupted stay in the Gambia of a medical brigade from the Caribbean island, which includes doctors, graduates and technicians, as well as professors, who teach at the Banjul University School of Medicine.
A document obtained by The Point reveals the Central Bank of The Gambia has called on all the banks, finance companies, bureaus and money transfer operations to desist from prohibited Forex (FX) cash withdrawal from foreign currency deposit (FCD) accounts and shipment of FX banknotes on behalf of customers.
The words and language has changed at the level of World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) urging African member countries to do more and change intellectual Property (IP), especially Copyright and Related Rights’ landscape in Africa for the benefit, interest and welfare of their people and the globe at large.
Thirty-five communities in the Central River Region (North) have “willingly” abandoned the deeply rooted cultural traditional practice dubbed Female Genital Cutting (FGC), child and forced marriage, wife battering and other negative social issues affecting the wellbeing of women and girls within the area and the region at large.
