 
Contact Address Details:
Sulayman Junkung General Hospital
Bwiam Town
Central River Region
Foni Kansala District
The Gambia
West Africa
Tel no: +220 4489085
4489908
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Information:
The Sulayman Junkung General Hospital (SJGH) was built in
2003 and is operated by the Gambian Government Ministry
of Health.
It is one of only a handful hospitals serving the Gambia. Built
in 2003 by the Gambian government, it serves the local and
surrounding population of 100,000. It treats approximately
16,000 patients annually. It is operated and funded by the
Gambian government ministry of health.
The 2 room accident and emergency department (“A & E”) is open
twenty four hours a day, seven days a week and includes a twenty
three hour 4 bed observation unit. It is staffed by nurses and
foreign service physicians from Cuba.
There is an out patient pharmacy and a lab. Studies available
are very limited. A dental and ophthalmology clinic are open
Monday through Friday and are staffed by trained nurses. The
in-patient wards include, medical, surgical, maternity, TB and
paediatric. They have one operating theater. There are no
radiology facilities. Sterilization of instruments is achieved
via a very old small autoclave however, recently a new one has
been donated and will be connected soon.
There is a conference room for meetings and lectures and an LCD
projector is available. A small medical library has been
established with six new computers, one with dial up internet
access (unreliable at times) for those who open their own
personal account.
Medical trekking teams travel to remote villages to provide
onsite healthcare (mostly women’s health and well baby exams) to
patients who live too far to travel to SJGH. An ambulance (more
like an SUV) is used to transport patients to Royal Victoria
Teaching Hospital (RVH) in Banjul if needed. RVH offers more
advanced diagnostic and operative services.
The major diseases treated are Malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS, Pneumonia,
Hypertension, CHF. Also inguinal hernia, burns, fractures and
skin infections. Maternal health is also a large part of the
care delivered at SJGH. Most commonly however are basic everyday
viral illnesses are treated in the outpatient departments that
are seen here in PCP offices.
Through the tireless efforts of the non-profit organization
Power Up Gambia, six new multi-panel tracking solar systems were
donated which will provides SJGH with almost continuous
electricity! There is a a diesel generator that serves as a back
up and supports larger equipment such as new laundry machines
that were recently donated but are yet to be used due to lack of
adequate water supply. In January of 2008 twelve solar panels
were installed and a new well pump. The new solar powered water
pump does pump adequate water supply for 24 hours but sadly they
don’t have enough storage tanks so there’s only enough water to
last approximately eight hours per day.
Source: delmedgambia.org
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