Humanity First International is registered in 33 countries across the six continents, and has been working on human development projects and responding to disasters since 1995.
Source/Credit: The Daily Observer / All Africa
By Amadou Jallow | November 15, 2013
The vice president and Women's Affairs minister has again described health as the first priority before any other human activity, underscoring that this is the reason why President Jammeh has placed high emphasis on the health sector for sustainable development. Her Excellency Aja Dr. Isatou Njie-Saidy was speaking Thursday morning at her office at State House during a meeting with a seven-member medical personnel from the Humanity Fist International-UK and their Gambian counterparts. The health team, comprising four doctors, two paramedics and one fire officer, are in the country to offer a weeklong basic, advanced life support and fracture management trainings to staff of the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital. The training commenced on November 7th and will wrap-up today, 15th November, 2013. VP Njie-Saidy described the support of the charity organisation as timely, acknowledging its previous assistance to The Gambia's health sector.
She observed that the areas that the organisation offers training are important aspects in health, noting that they will contribute in enhancing service delivery especially at the Emergency Unit of the EFSTH.
She told the officials that the Humanity First Gambia office has been offering a lot of assistance to The Gambia. "Even when disaster strikes, you always find them there offering health and other assistance," she said. While expressing hope that the cooperation between the organisation and The Gambia would be broadened for the future, the VP told the officials that The Gambia does not only need health assistance from them, but also equipment. She thanked the organisation's Gambia and UK offices for the numerous interventions in the country.
The minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Omar Sey, thanked the team for the assistance, saying the target for the training was to provide health service to the people in the quickest possible time. Like the VP, the Health minister also said accident and emergency are key areas in the health system.
The head of the medical team, Dr. Daud TS Chou, informed that during the training, the doctors and nurses were exposed to various skills in life support and basic aspects of fracture management. He added that participants are enthusiastic to contribute to The Gambia's desired goals for the health sector. Chou said their desire is to continue humanitarian relief services, especially in helping people affected by natural calamities, promote peace and understanding, and strengthen peoples' capacity to help themselves. He said the Humanity First has a mission to serve disaster struck and socially disadvantaged individuals and families in the poorer communities of the world.
The chief medical director of the EFSTH, Awmar Jafari, commended the organisation for the support to the hospital, describing capacity building as an immediate need for Gambian health practitioners.
The chairman of the Humanity Fist Gambia office and the director of the medical programmes, Kawsu Kinteh and Dr. Babucarr AS Sowe respectively, both expressed commitment to contribute to the development of The Gambia.
Chairman Kinteh told the VP that Humanity First was founded as an NGO in The Gambia in 2000, saying since then, it has been engaged in a number of relief operations and sustainable human development schemes with the objective of lifting communities out of poverty amongst others.
He described the relationship between his office and the government of The Gambia as cordial, saying Humanity First Gambia has a scheme of replacing and maintaining broken hand water pumps in villages. This, he added, is meant to increase access to clean water.
For Dr Sowe, the collaboration between The Gambia and Humanity First International commenced when the organisation dispatched some medical team to visit the country some years back. Sowe said the two sides then later entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the EFSTH in terms of training and technical assistance. Brief history
Humanity First International is registered in 33 countries across the six continents, and has been working on human development projects and responding to disasters since 1995. These have included the earthquakes in Turkey, Pakistan, Japan and Iran, floods in Africa and Latin America, storms and tsunamis in the USA, Indonesia and Bangladesh, and conflicts in Eastern Europe. Over 93% of donated funds are spent directly on aid projects. With the majority of its labour including skilled engineers and clinicians being volunteers along with preferential rates for materials benefiting from global sourcing, Humanity First is often able to deliver a value of aid many times the value of donations provided.
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