Horizons Clinic Gambia Limited secures US$16.8 million financing from Afreximbank that will transform healthcare in The Gambia

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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...

Replacement gloves extremely handy

Horizons Trust Gambia (HTG) delivered 10,000 pairs of disposable gloves to Gambia’s Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH). The hospital wrote to HTG requesting support as they had run out of existing supplies and with no timescale as to when they would be receiving their next consignment. HTG were only too happy to assist...

Thank you Brussels Airline

Horizons Trust Gambia (HTG) is eternally grateful and appreciative of the support given by long term friend of Horizons, Brussels Airlines. Belgium’s flag carrier and largest airline regularly donates blankets, baby clothes and toys and so on for the Serekunda Health Centre that is supported by HTG and these contributions are proving invaluable to...

Safer delivery project update

While the current pandemic has understandably resulted in delays in construction of the Horizons hospital complex in the Gambia, the Horizons Trust Gambia (HTG) has continued to work tirelessly on the ground on a variety of projects. In partnership with the Houston based Baylor College of Medicine, significant funding has been secured to design...

Massive Step Forward For Horizons as Contract Signed

The multi million pound hospital project, committed to deliver state of the art sustainable healthcare provision in The Gambia, has reached a significant milestone with the signing of the contract with the company that will construct the state of the art facility. The contract between Horizons Clinic and builders Gicec China was signed at...

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