By Adama Makasuba
Chief Executive Officer of PENMAR Physiotherapy, Penda Sidibeh-Sillah has said palsy disease (uncontrollable tremor of the body or part) affects seventeen million people globally.
She made the revelation during a celebral palsy awareness program Saturday at PENMAR Physiotherapy clinic’s in Kotu, and described it as a wakeup call in the country.
“17 million people are affected people including children globally and Gambia is not exception,” she said.
She scowled at people stigmatizing kids affected by the disease in the society saying that is very wrong and that those kids have rights to living.
Meanwhile, she said they have plans of expanding such awareness program to other parts of the country especially to the rural Gambia.
“It is our plan to expanding this awareness program to other parts of the country; we want to consider the people. If you want to know Gambia goes to the upcountry. Our plan is to go house to house is to go to the community in actually taken care of these kids. They have rights to live like any of us is in the pipeline,” she said.
However, Madam Sidibeh-Sillah called on Gambia government to look into the roads condition of the country, saying “roads here in The Gambia are not conducive for even the old people and the government should look at it.”