A clinic has been launched today to help close the healthcare gap in The Gambia.

Trans-Africa Tele Clinic will be conducting consultancy services for outpatients as well as providing healthcare education to the public.

The clinic is the brainchild of US-based Sierra Leonean surgeon, Dr Zainab Dumbuya. 

“It is the goal of Trans Africa Tele Clinics to provide high quality healthcare to all Gambians regardless of their economic status and to improve their lives through holistic care,” Dr Dumbuya said at the launching ceremony of the clinic at Fajara. 

According to the surgeon, healthcare  facilities and infrastructures in The Gambia like the rest of Africa are significantly inadequate as compared to western countries like USA, Canada, and UK. 

“Therefore, our responsibility as Africans, is to be educated [abroad] and learned from Western achievements and replicate the successes in Africa.”

“Our mission is to bridge that gap by transfer of knowledge, in turn building a robust healthcare system that is affordable, accessible and sustainable.” 

Dr Dumbuya said her clinic is aiming to “revolutionise how healthcare is delivered in the Gambia.”

She added: “My company aims to provide a new standard of healthcare to citizens and non citizens throughout The Gambia, in collaboration with the Government of The Gambia which has made this country very stable for investment.”

Dr Dumbuya said her clinic will help address the need for a quality diagnostic, imaging and telehealth clinic for the proper treatment, management, and prevention of diseases in the country. 

Meanwhile, Dr Lamin E.S Jaiteh assured Gambians that the clinic will provide competent and quality healthcare delivery to the public.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba