Health

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  • Collaboration between the Medios not-for-profit association (vzw) and Banjul hospital started in 2006. Medios vzw was already supporting many initiatives at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital.
  • Medios vzw finances the renovation of the 'female surgery ward' of the hospital in Banjul (2007)
  • About 300 beds and various medical equipment (wheelchairs, examination tables, etc.) are shipped to the hospital in Banjul (2009 and 2011)
  • Naomie Plovie works as a Red Cross volunteer in Banjul for 11 months (2010)
  • Navy ship Godetia transports a solar water heater to be installed by students and teachers from the Free Technical Institute at Banjul hospital (2010).
  • Navy ship Godetia transports various medical equipment for the hospital in Banjul in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2016.
  • Sebastiaan Candale and Maxim Vanwulpen of Red Cross Ostend travel to Gambia and start the AFAM (African first aid materials) project in Gambia (2013-2014)
  • ‘Machtig Montuur’ is a project of the Optician students of the Vesalius Institute in Ostend. In 2014, they travelled to Banjul for two weeks to perform eye tests on a number of vulnerable people. Those who needed glasses and did not have the financial means to buy them could choose a frame in which the appropriate lenses were inserted. One hundred and forty people, mostly children, were provided with glasses. This project was repeated in 2016 and 2018.
  • Donation and shipment of an ambulance in cooperation with Medios vzw and Koen and Katelijne De Meester (2018)
  • Donation and shipment of ambulance in cooperation with Medios vzw and Koen and Katelijne De Meester (2019)
  • Launch of hand hygiene project at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital with support from Medios Ostend (2019)
  • Follow-up to AFAM project: Red Cross Flanders donates 650 First Aid for Africa manuals to Red Cross The Gambia. The items are shipped by navy ship Godetia. (2020)
  • Mieke De Bruycker donates a complete eye examination unit to the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital. The items are shipped by navy ship Godetia. (2020)
  • Implementation of aloe vera project. Research on treating burns with aloe vera at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital. (2020-2023)
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