Imagine Your Impact Series: SaveSmile
IMANA MEDICAL RELIEF Imagine Your Impact series: SaveSmile Qudsiya Siddiqui October 8th, 2020 Imagine being stuck living through shame, social stigma, and isolation, all because one is born with a cleft lip. It was forty years of being shunned and ridiculed for Amna,...
Dispensing rational medicines in Gambia
The Gambia is in the midst of a public health crisis, with a shortage of skilled health workforce and a rapid increase of counterfeit medicines has left the poverty-stricken Gambians with no access to quality medical care.
In recognition of the problems The Gambians are facing, IMANA Medical Relief (IMR) in partnership with The Oasis Initiative organized their first-ever medical mission to the country. Dr. Ghalib Abbasi, Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) from Houston traveled with a five-member volunteer team on an IMR sponsored mission — SaveGambia; to the capital city, Banjul from Jan. 24 – Feb. 1, 2020.