His Excellency Momodou Lamin Bah, Ambassador of the Republic of The Gambia to the United States, on Thursday August 21, 2025 attended a stakeholder virtual meeting that the Embassy organized between the Minnesota based Non-profit Organisations – Children’s Surgery International (CSI) and Impact Health The Gambia with the Ministries of Health, Basic and Secondary Education, Gender, Children, and Social Welfare, and Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH). These institutions were represented by Permanent Secretaries at the meeting.
Impact Health-The Gambia is a Non-profit Organisation based in Minnesota and it was founded by a Gambian with the objective of supporting the healthcare system in The Gambia. It is also worth noting that Children’s Surgery International (CSI) is a voluntary non-government organization that provides free pediatric medical and surgical services as well as professional education and training to health professionals, children and families across the globe.
A team of 16 doctors from CSI are supposed to travel to The Gambia in November 2025 to provide services with a view to reduce healthcare disparities and increase access to life-changing surgical care by helping communities obtain the knowledge, skills and tools to provide life-changing surgical and medical care for children. The team is expected to engage key stakeholders and are expected to teach parents how to take care of kids with special healthcare needs.
The objective of the meeting was to come up with measures that would help the doctors have a hitch-free medical mission to The Gambia. The meeting also provided the opportunity to find out ways of better aligning CSI Action Plan for The Gambia with that of the Ministry of Health.