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The training aims at improving efficiency in data management and accessibility in The Gambia through the use of a technological application called the Pocket Patient MD.
Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices
There is a case from Morissanda Kouyate’s career that stays with him. In 1983, Kouyate, then 32, was working at a village hospital in Guinea when 12-year-old twins, Hassantou and Housseynatou, were brought in. Through wails, their relatives told him that earlier that day, the girls had been taken into the bush to be submitted to genital mutilation. They were barely conscious and bleeding heavily. For the next 48 hours, Kouyate and his colleagues tried to save them; his wife came and donated blood. The girls died. “We did everything,” he said. “I was very sad, because at that time, I ha...
Conakry, Guinea - Guinea's military leader Colonel Mamady Doumbouya has appointed a prominent campaigner against female genital mutilation (FGM) as foreign minister, in his latest change since taking power last month. The West African state's new diplomatic chief is Morissanda Kouyate, who last year won the UN's Nelson Mandela Prize, according to a decree read…
The West African state's new diplomatic chief is Morissanda Kouyate, who last year won the UN's Nelson Mandela Prize.