The Kanifing Municipal Council, under the leadership of Mayor Yankuba Colley, yesterday donated D100,000 to the Presidential treatment programme.

An organisation called Jammeh Pree also donated 40 bed sheets to the treatment programme in response to the call of the director general of the Treatment Programme, Dr Tamsir Mbowe.

Reacting to the gestures, Dr Tamsir Mbowe said since the inception of the programme in January 2007, thousands of patients and their families have directly or indirectly benefited from the treatment programme.

According to the director general, the bed occupancies in the major health facilities have drastically dropped since the inception of the Presidential Treatment Programme. 

Dr Mbowe reminded the donors of a statement by the Gambian leader President Jammeh who said ill health sets the stage for poverty and under-development and said that their contribution to the treatment programme was therefore timely and highly welcome.
"This gestures will help to strengthen the health delivery system in the country," he asserted.