COVID NOTICE
We are always monitoring the ongoing COVID outbreak information and follow all current guildelines from the CDC. At Africa Tele Clinic, we do practice safe distancing and require masks for all visits. If you do not have a mask, masks are available upon request.
About Africa Tele Clinic
The late Nelson Mandela is famously quoted as saying “Health cannot be a question of income; it is a fundamental human right.” Africa Tele Clinic (TATC) provides high quality healthcare to all Gambians regardless of economic status and improve their lives through holistic care.
Mission Statement
Is to bridge that gap through transfer of knowledge which will in turn build a robust healthcare system that is affordable, accessible, and sustainable. This is done by providing medical services that are of the highest standard, with superior technological programming, quality pharmaceutical distributions, and reliable lab analysis via a collaborative health care model that is proven in the United States as effective and data driven for best practices.
Our Vision
TATC stands to revolutionize how healthcare is delivered in Gambia through the modification of current practices including transfer of knowledge to ground teammates, access to emergency medicine, educating communities on preventive measures and healthier lifestyle choices, and by monitoring their progress in order to mitigate the high risk of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality through early detection and care management.
Our Chief Staff
Zainab Musa Tarawally
CEO+Founder
Zainab Dumbuya is a Registered Nurse from Freetown, Sierra Leone and has over twenty years of cardiac surgery experience. Initially getting into nursing because of her father’s heart disease, Zainab soon developed a grand passion for taking care of others.
After graduating from Thames Valley University in London, she received her nursing degree, leading her to become the nurse she is today. In 2012, she started “The Cardiac Connection”, a Joint Commission accredited agency that brings awareness to heart disease, helping people realize the effect of sugar and salt. In terms of accolades, Cardiac Connection is a member of the home health care elites, has won the “Best Superior Performer” Award for Patient Satisfaction in 2017, 2018 and is in the top 25 percent of agencies in the continent.
In 2020 she co founded Caring With Heart a nonprofit 501c3 the supports the mission of Cardiac Connection and in 2022 she co founded Africa Tele Clinic Gambia Ltd to bridge the health care gap in West Africa. Aside from being a nurse and a businesswoman, Zainab is a mother of two boys, likes to dance, listen to music, and read.
Alwyn Valesious John
Co-Founder, Chief Financial Officer
Alwyn is Chartered Institute of Management Accountants qualified and a member of Healthcare Financial Management Association with a background in Finance, Credit Management, and Project Management. He has specialist skills needed in today’s fast-changing and complex business world, combining financial expertise and business acumen to enable decisions critical to sustaining organization value.
He has over 24 years of experience working in both the private and public sector in the United Kingdom. As the Finance Lead working for a health service trust in the United Kingdom, managing an annual budget of £84M, oversee all related financial matters, including planning, accounting, debt and risk management, and reporting. Develop financial plans in close collaboration with senior management and lead on all aspects of accounting operations such as receivables, payables, procurement, payroll, and financial reporting. Preparation of all financial reporting such as budgets, revenue recognition, cost-benefits analyses, and monthly management account, ensuring the company's financial practices are in line with statutory regulations and legislation, also analyzing the financial climate and market trends to assist in creating strategic plans.
Alwyn is a project management practitioner and holds a diploma in Credit Management from the Institute of Credit Management.
Doctor Chemlal Mehdi
Co-Founder
Doctor Chemlal Mehdi doctor specializing in anesthesia-resuscitation laureate of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat in Morocco, founder of a clinic multidisciplinary in Morocco, medical director of the medical evacuation company "AIR OCEAN Maroc".
Doctor Mehdi, despite his young age, has developed great medical skills over several years and also in hospital management in several clinics and hospitals throughout Africa. He also played a big role in controlling the covid-19 pandemic in Morocco thanks to his skills and dedication.
Doctor Mehdi will join our group with his multi-specialized team in order to participate in the good cause which is the development of care in The Gambia. he will give us the benefit of his expertise to form a promising medical and paramedical team in Banjul.
Sharron Napper
Co-Founder
Napper has been a resident of Virginia since 1999. She has served her community as a special education teacher assistant, pediatric nurse, cardiac acute care nurse, orthopedic step-down nurse, and a medical surgery clinical nurse for 16 years in the central Virginia area. Over the recent years she has seen the need for more education and outreach in the community dealing with our great struggles with food deserts, high blood pressure, diabetes, and Alzheimer's and as a whole healthcare inequality in the commonwealth of Virginia. She is a Project Coordinator for the state of Virginia and lifestyle coach licensed by the CDC to teach prediabetes education for The Balm in Gilead a nonprofit in Midlothian, VA. The Southeast Diabetes Faith Initiative is a diabetes prevention program that includes six states beginning in VA, NC, SC, GA, Al, and MS. this program was developed by The Balm in Gilead along with the CDC to bring a diabetes prevention program to theses states, with virtual classes available at no cost to participants. She is also a Certified Dementia Practitioner and Professional Trainer for the state with the Greater Richmond Chapter Alzheimer’s Association. She has been with the chapter for little over three years and loves helping the community and professionals make the connection with Alzheimer’s and learning about the people of Virginia and how to better serve them. She is the mother of eight loving children and fifteen wonderful grandchildren spread out in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina that she tries to visit often.
Fatoumata Jawara
Human Resource Manager
Fatoumata Keejaw Jawara is a Gambian by birth and is currently the Human resource manager at Trans Africa Tele clinic. She lives in the USA for more than two decades and worked with national and international corporations in the area of nursing, and gastronomy. While in the Gambia, she served as coordinator in Bijilo Medical Clinic, and project coordinator in Kankangba Agro produce and service. Fatoumata’s journey has been so interesting considering the wealth of experience she gathered both from private, local, and international organizations likewise public institutions. Her enthusiasm and commitment to development work, are clear milestones for her unwavering and relentless effort to serve her community and the nation at large.
After graduating from Perpetual School of Nursing CNA/CMT courses, she obtained her nursing certificate leading her to become a nurse assistant, a work she had a great passion for. Aside from being an HRM and entrepreneur, Fatoumata is a mother of one. She likes traveling, reading novels, cooking and spending time with family members.
Dr. Lamin E.S. Jaiteh
Chief Medical Doctor
Dr. Lamin E.S. Jaiteh, a consultant cardiologist at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH) & Trans Africa Tele Clinic in the Gambia, and lecturer of Internal Medicine & Cardiology at the School of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (SMAHS) of the University of the Gambia. Worked the Medical Research Council The Gambia @ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MRCG@LSHTM) as a research clinician, and still collaborate with colleagues there in research. I have keen interest in cardiovascular research, especially in rheumatic heart disease. I have made several publications in well-known medical journals together with colleagues from Africa, Europe, Australia and Asia, in almost all aspect of medicine but more in cardiology.
Rayaan Faruqi
Director Of Operations
Rayaan Faruqi is a biomedical engineer and computer scientist with a focus on making healthcare as equitable and effective as possible. His entrepreneurial experience in machine learning diagnostics and medical devices informs his work as Director of Operations at Africa Tele Clinic. He is passionate and excited to work with and for the people of The Gambia, Africa, and in the pursuit of delivering quality healthcare to all people.
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