By Landing Colley
Quality Innovative Practical Transformative Accessible Health Services (QIPTAHS) Saturday launched free health care services in communities of Kanifing Municipal Council
QIPTAHS is a team of experienced and dedicated healthcare professionals with a combined experience of more than 30 years of service working in the most advanced healthcare setting in the world.
Among other objectives of QIPTAHS is to provide high quality basic healthcare services that is affordable, available and accessible to all Gambians; reduce the burden of communicable and non-communicable disease to the level that they cease to become public health problem.
At the launching ceremony held in the premises of KMC, Suntu Jarju, president of QIPTAH disclosed that after comparing the health care delivery system in The Gambia and US “we believe that there is something they are doing that we too can do,” here in the country.
According to him, they are focusing on primary health care delivery system as it is the community part where most the people fell into.
He explained that they do go out to identify people, access them but they don’t want to end in the assessment part, but now to want to work with those identified and manage their cases.
He added that any individual they want to work with should be able to know who their doctor is as they have introduced a system where individual can say who their doctor is.
The next benefit they will be bringing into primary health care system, he said, will be transitional care that is wherever you go as their patience they will be there with you.
Musa Bah, Deputy Mayor of KMC said: “the healthcare service that they will be delivering to our people will go a long way to curb some certain degrees.”
He continued that “It will help to develop spirit plus prepare the body and mind of those meet in your consultations to deal with health problems as they arise.”
Dr. Musutapha Bitaye, Director of Health Service noted that one of the important key areas they will contribute is the maternal and child health as it is important to the government and any health sector.