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Information:
The Royal
Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH) was built in 1853 by the
British Government, who also provided funds for a substantial
improvement in facilities and subsequently handed it over to the Gambian Government in 1953. This financing provided many of the buildings that make up the
teaching hospital today.
Formerly
known as the RVH the RTVH is a 650-bedded tertiary hospital based in
the capital, Banjul. It is the leading referral hospital in The Gambia
and has recently become a Teaching Hospital to train Gambians to
become doctors.
Developments:
In the late 1990s, The Gambian Government decided that it had to
reduce its dependency on foreign doctors by establishing a medical
school in the University of The Gambia. The UTG uses RVTH to teach its
clinical students.
Daily it treats an average of nearly 650 patients a day.
Funding:
The hospital is financed by the Government through its subvention scheme
however, this is regularly found to be insufficient to fund all its
services. To ease the financing difficulties a number of donors make
gifts of cash and equipment to the hospital. Some of the donors who
have regularly helped the Banjul hospital are listed below.
List of sponsors have wards named after them:
GAMTEL
NAWEC
Shell
Trust Bank
BCC
Soroptimists International
Gambian
Int. Airlines
Standard Chartered Bank
Other major donors:
The
Government of Cuba
Catholic Relief Services
The Federal Republic of Nigeria
Banjul Oxygen
The UK (through DFID)
MFH Group
The Government of Egypt
Nanning-Benjie
Christian Children's Fund
Rotary Club of Fajara
Sight Savers International
Danish Gambia Friendship Soc.
Jamma Kafo
Alh. Karamba Gassama
Gambia Ports Authority
Friends of The Gambia Assoc.
MRC
GEKO
Peace Corps
UNDP
UNICEF
VSO
WHO
Central Bank
and
more...
Medical Departments:
Internal
medicine, paediatrics, surgery, and obstetrics / gynaecology as well as
related units situated within the grounds are: orthopaedics;
radiology; pathology; laparoscopic gynaecology, ear, nose,
and throat and a department of clinical and laboratory research
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