EFSTH

The CMD wishes to inform the general staff and the public that there will be an Indian OPD Speciality camp in the hospital on the 4th and the 5th of November 2023.

The team will focus on the areas of orthopedic, cardiology, nephrology and urology.

The CMD Dr Ammar Al Jafari and the management of Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital wishes to inform the general public that the CT-Scan machine is now working. The management is urging the public to make use of the services of the machine.

The CMD would like to apologize on behalf of the Management for the period it took the machine to be out of service.

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Prof Yankuba Kassama is installed as the 2nd Vice President of the West African College of Surgeons. Congratulations Prof.

As CMD of the Hospital I am please to relate the graduation of six doctors of our esteem Postgraduate Medical Training Program of the West African College of Surgeons hosted here in the EFSTH as the newest Members of the West African College of Surgeons. They are henceforth specialist of the respective faculties of Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

1. Dr. Baboucarr A.S. Sowe - Specialist Surgeon
2. Dr. Kajali Camara - Specialist Surgeon
3. Dr. Kebba Gassama - Specialist Obstetrics and Gynecology
4. Dr. Dado Jabbie - Specialist Obstetrics and Gynecology
5. Dr. Nenneh Bah - Specialist Obstetrics and Gynecology
6. Dr. Fatoumata Jarjusey - Specialist Obstetrics and Gynecology.

I also wish to seize this opportunity to congratulate Prof. Yankuba Kassama as the 2nd Vice President of the West African College of Surgeons.

On behalf of the Honourable Minister of Health, Management and staff of the Hospital I congratulate them for this laudable achievement.

Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital
Department of Peadiatrics
Imperforated A**s (Recto vestibular fistula- ARM)

By Dr Cherno S. Jallow (Consultant Paediatric Surgeon) and Team (The Gambia)
She is a 16-year-old Senegalese girl who presented to us a year ago with an ‘Absent a**l opening’ which was present since birth. She passes stool just under the va**na through a tiny hole with no control. As a result, she smells of stool always which caused her to be withdrawn. She did not attend school because of the illness.
When she presented to our hospital, Edward Francis Small Teaching, we saw her at our Surgical outpatient and prepared her for Posterior Sagittal Anorectoplasty – PSARP (creating a new a**s and re**um) after bowel preparation. After the Surgery, the re**um retracted and the wound broke down. As a result, we did a diverting colostomy. The colostomy got retracted which we had to refashion.
After 6 months, we did a redo of the PSARP. Post-op was turbulent as hard stools were passed which seemed to have broken the wound. 4 months later we took her in for examination under anaesthesia and noted that the repair was intact. We eventually, closed the stoma.
Post-op after closure was uneventful. Today is postoperative day 8, she is feeding well, passing stool for the first time through the re**um like any normal person and most importantly she is continent.
Important to note, these were all done free of charge; no financial cost, rather she is usually provided with food and fare by the Paediatric surgery staff members.

On Tuesday 21st February 2023, EFSTH and the Ministry of Health will inaugurate the first Cardiology Center in the country. Join us live on EFSTH TV on Facebook.

This is a quick update on the status of our dialysis machines. Six are now up and running.

Patients who need urgent attention are all sent to Africmed hospital for management at the expense of EFSTH.

The CMD and the team are working very hard to get all the machines back and running.

The Chief Medical Director, Deputy Chief Medical Director and the entire hospital management, would like to express their deepest sympathy to patients with kidney conditions. Some of our machines are down and we are expecting a technician from Senegal today to fix the problem. Meanwhile, measures are in place to send critical cases to Africmed hospital for dialysis. The DCMD who is a Consultant Nephrologist, have assessed all cases and no one is in life threatening situation. The hospital implores your understanding while we normalize the situation.

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