Horizons Outreach

The Safer Delivery Project is a partnership between Horizons Trust Gambia, Kanifing General Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. This project aims to improve the quality of care for mothers and babies in The Gambia through continuous clinical training.

The programme trained 100 health workers in global best practices for emergency obstetric and neonatal care in 2023.

Baylor Global Health will also provide Smart Pod units to Kanifing General Hospital, which are fully expandable and customisable mobile pods that will serve as surgical obstetrics and post-anesthesia care units.

These Smart Pods will be fully equipped to provide basic and advanced obstetric and anesthesia care. The ultimate aim - to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality rates in the country.

2022

Site selection, clinical needs and environmental assessment. Medical training in The Gambia, engineering and environmental assessment.

Beginning 2023

Engineering, design, construction, site preparation and medical education courses (both virtual and in-person) for Gambian health workers.

April-October 2023

Start of Smart Pods manufacturing. Testing and validation in October.

2024

First batch of Smart Pods shipped from the United States to The Gambia. Smart Pods deployment, final training course and stakeholder visit to The Gambia.

Mid 2024

Deployment of Smart Pods at Kanifing General Hospital (KGH) with training & maintenance courses.

Oct 2024

Smart Pod Launch. Find out more here.

Thank you to all of our partners for making the launch of West Africa’s first maternal Smart Pods a huge success!

This state-of-the-art surgical environment is a game changer for new mothers and babies in The Gambia. Two “Smart Pods” have arrived at Kanifing General Hospital, which will enable staff to carry out emergency obstetric procedures – such as caesarean sections – in an advanced clinical setting. Expectant mums will no longer have to wait for […]

Saving mums and babies’ lives with the Infection, Prevention & Control Programme.

Eliana Sambou, Nurse Midwife and IPC Focal Person at Serrekunda Health Center in The Gambia, explains that there’s a tangible difference for their mothers and babies since Horizons Trust Gambia implemented the Infection, Prevention & Control (IPC) project in the clinic in 2016: “Before we started this IPC program in the Serrekunda [Health Center] … […]

We’re fundraising £16,000 to train 60 midwives in The Gambia

We’re fundraising £16,000 to train 60 midwives in The Gambia At Horizons Trust we’re passionate about reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in The Gambia. We want to protect every newborn baby and mother here. In 2023, we trained over 70 Gambian healthcare professionals in global best practices of obstetric and neonatal care. This course gave […]

“This is going to help the hospital in ways that we will not even imagine”: Safer Delivery project update

Fatmata S Tambi, Senior Nursing Officer at Kanifing General Hospital (KGH) in The Gambia, has been leading the implementation of the training programme provided through the Safer Delivery project. In collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine in Texas and Horizons Trust Gambia, 100 health workers at Kanifing General Hospital have received training in global best […]

Horizons Clinic Gambia Limited secures US$16.8 million financing from Afreximbank

Horizons Clinic Gambia Limited (HCGL) has successfully executed a bespoke US$16.8 million Construction and Medical Tourism Relay Facility Agreement with African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). Afreximbank’s extensive structuring and technical experience was brought to bear in the successful closure of the agreement, notwithstanding a very challenging financing environment for medium sized healthcare facilities and the Gambian […]

Horizons Trust Gambia delivers life-saving training for mothers and babies

The Safer Delivery Project is a partnership between Horizons Trust Gambia, Kanifing General Hospital (KGH) and Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. This project aims to improve the quality of care for mothers and babies in The Gambia through continuous clinical training. The ultimate aim – to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality rates in the country. […]

Amie Joof-Cole joins Horizons Trust Gambia as new trustee

Horizons Trust Gambia (HTG) is pleased to confirm Amie Joof-Cole has joined as a new trustee. Amie Joof-Cole is a journalist, gender and women’s rights activist, a communication and election expert. She is the Executive Director of FAMEDEV- the Inter-African Network for Women, Media, Gender and Development. She has worked for several years at Radio […]

New trustee for Horizons Trust Gambia

Horizons Trust Gambia (HTG) is delighted to announce the addition of Dr. Maimuna Mendy to its Board of Trustees. Dr. Mendy, a virologist who completed her higher degree studies (Ph.D) in Virology at the University of London in 1994, brings over 30 years’ experience on hepatitis research working at the Medical Research Council laboratories, Fajara, […]

Baylor & HTG safer delivery project update

Working closely with the Ministry of Health, Horizons Trust Gambia (HTG) and Baylor will provide a mobile and compact, yet expandable, shipping container-based stand-alone surgical facility (Smart POD) for caesarean deliveries in remote locations while the Baylor team will provide ongoing training through telemedicine and augmented reality. HTG has just completed the needs assessment, having […]

HTG clamps delivered to a grateful Brikama Maternity Unit

Horizons Trust Gambia (HTG) has delivered 500 cord clamps to the maternity unit at Gambia’s Brikama District Hospital after learning that they were completely out of stock and resorting to the use of thread instead on the babies, significantly increasing the risk of infection. The unit had encountered some logistical and procurement challenges, so HTG […]