By Landing Colley
QIPTAHS a team made up of pure Gambians has offered free health care services for the members of the Kanifing Municipal Council communities as they lunched the initiative on Saturday.
They aim to reduce barriers in healthcare and to transform the quality and standard of healthcare in The Gambia.
Suntu Jarju, president of QIPTAH said: “after comparing the health care delivery system in The Gambia and United States of America, there is something they are doing that we too can do.”
According to him they are focusing on primary health care delivery system as it is the community part where most of 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 adding that they want to work with those identifies people and manage their cases.
Any individual who interesting in working with them should be able to know who their doctors are revealing that 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 will be transitional care and that is whereever you go as their patience they will be there with you, he assured.
Musa Bah Deputy Mayor said: “the healthcare service that they will be delivering to our people will go a long way in curbing to a certain degree.”
It will help to develop spirit plus prepare the body and mind of those you will meet in your consultations to deal with health problems as they arise, he added.
According to him, he delighted to see Gambians in the Diaspora coming back home to contribute to national development.
“I am sure that with your education and experience in health care you will continue to assist us with our old problem we encounter in the health sector,” he said.
Dr. Musutapha Bitaye Director of health service said “all the areas the organization want to work is very relevant to KMC as health is not just an absent of disease.”
One of the important key areas they contributed is the maternal and child health as it is important to the government and any health sector, he said
On behalf of the ministry of health he commended the QIPTAHS for given such a service to their fellow Gambians.
