Welcome to Bansang Hospital Appeal
BHA Winter Fundraising Appeal 2023/24
This Winter's Fund Raising Appeal focuses on the two most important areas within the hospital, the nursing staff and the supply of pharmaceuticals. Without doubt the standards of nursing within the hospital is ...... to read more please click here.
Bansang Hospital Appeal (BHA) is an award winning charity dedicated to improving healthcare delivery in a remote region of The Gambia, West Africa. Since 1992, its founder, Anita Smith MBE MRG, has dedicated her life to reversing its once terminal decline.
Thanks to Anita's efforts and your support, Bansang Hospital today is vibrant, cohesive and incredibly effective. It has near 100% staff retention - an unparalleled accomplishment in Sub-Saharan Africa, and an unthinkable one when considering the horrors that Anita first viewed in 1992. The BHA's intervention has ensured that hundreds of communities across the entire region have been saved from the destructive trauma of losing loved ones to preventable causes. Your support means 600,000 of the most vulnerable and caring people are now able to plan their futures with ever greater certainty.
Please click on the above video to watch a 5 minute documentary about Anita Smith and the Bansang Hospital Appeal
Anita and the staff of Bansang Hospital want to continue building a brighter and more assured future for all those that depend on this incredibly important healthcare resource. Our development model, which focuses wholly on retaining and motivating staff, has already given unprecedented successes and garnered numerous awards, including an MBE from Her Majesty The Queen which was awarded by HRH Prince Charles to Anita in 2008 for Services To Overseas Development.
With your support, Anita and the hospital's staff can build on the solid foundations that have been laid down since 1992. With continued dedication, focus and funding, Bansang Hospital can become that most elusive thing; an affordable healthcare resource capable of delivering sustainable and effective healthcare to the chronically poor. This realistic and achievable aspiration will also serve as a blueprint for other African countries that are suffering so terribly with the social destruction that comes from having ineffective health facilities.
So if you believe every mother and child has the right to life, regardless of economic status or geographic location you can help make this happen, please continue reading below.
Thank you
Campaign ~ For The Future
The transformation of the Bansang Hospital since 1992 has been quite remarkable and has only been made possible due to the extraordinary generosity of friends of the Bansang Hospital Appeal charity.
However the transformation is not yet complete as there are still many critical areas that we still need to address.
So during the latter half of 2025 we are targetting one of the most ambitious challenges we have ever confronted, to raise the necessary funds to install a new Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit.
The present A&E is a small room that also doubles up as the hospital’s outpatients’ clinic and is always overwhelmed with patients. It has four examination beds, two doctor’s tables, one oxygen cylinder, and a defibrillator.
The preliminary assessment for all patients and casualties is in this small room that has no privacy with the doctor’s assessment areas only a metre away from each another. This can be a very real problem, especially for female patients who are too embarrassed to disclose their problems in close proximity to male medical staff.
The new A&E unit will be situated at the front of the hospital, allowing ambulances direct and easy access. The cost to build and equip this new A&E unit is approximately £300,000.
These are the initial plans for the new A&E unit and these proposals will be undergoing extensive testing and analysing before the final plan is confirmed. To view the new proposed A&E unit at Bansang Hospital please click here.
If you are interested in investing in this remarkable initiative please contact Anita.
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