Gambia: Health Promotion Directorate Seeks Robust Partnership With the Media

The Directorate of Health Promotion and Education (DHPE), the body responsible for the coordination of all health promotion and education in the country in collaboration with the National Eye -Care Unit, Tuesday convened a meeting with media personnel at the Central Medical Store in Kotu, with a view to forging robust partnerships for effective health communication interventions.

Health experts used the opportunity to raise concerns over the effects of traditional healing especially to the eyes of patients, and also sought ways to put mechanisms in place aimed at regulating their activities within the ethics of the health domain.

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