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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

Anita Smith MBE MRG
Founder, Bansang Hospital Appeal (BHA)

 


 

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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Sponsor Packages

Bansang Hospital Appeal has several exciting sponsor packages which all support the fantastic work Anita and her team do every day. If you are yet to be a part of the Bansang story, we hope you'll consider joining us. You will be helping to safeguard the lives of 600,000 acutely vulnerable people. You will also be helping us to demonstrate that effective healthcare can be delivered to everyone - even in environments as challenging as Bansang.

Antibiotics Course - Bansang Hospital

A gift of £30 will enable Bansang Hospital to save the lives of 20 patients with a course of Life Saving Antibiotics. Donate £30 to Bansang Hospital to provide a one off  course of Antibiotics please click here. Or if you are feeling very generous and would like to make a real difference please select Monthly on the Donate page.

Lactogen Milk Formula - Bansang Hospital

Three tins of Lactogen Milk Formula will give orphaned babies and babies of mothers who are not able to feed their babies a good start in life. So to Donate a one off payment of £12 to buy Lactogen Milk Formula for a baby please click here. Or if you are feeling very generous and would like to make a real difference please select Monthly on the Donate page.

Sack of Rice - Bansang Hospital

The 557 staff members at Bansang Hospital face great hardship in feeding their families with the impact of inflation and poor harvest yields in The Gambia. Donating a 25kg sack of rice to a staff member makes a big difference and will feed their family for a month and costs just £25. So to Donate a one off payment of £25 please click here. Or if you are feeling very generous and would like to give real food security to a family for a full year please select Monthly on the Donate page.
 
 

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