As Alasana Jammeh Becomes First PS Religious Affairs

Dr. Mariatou Jallow has been appointed Chief Medical Director of the Royal Victorial Teaching Hospital (RVTH), reliable sources intimated to this reporter. Until her latest appointment, Dr. Jallow served as Chief Executive Officer of the then RVH before being deployed to the Department of State for Health as Deputy Director of Health Services, rising to the post of Director last year.

Dr. Jallow replaces Dr. Malick Njie, popularly known as Pachah, who has been redeployed to the Department of State for Health and Social Welfare but yet to be designated, the sources added.

In a separate development, Mr. Alasana S.T. Jammeh, the former Director of Commerce of Gambia International Airlines who recently resigned, has been appointed Permanent Secretary of the Dept. of State for Religious Affairs, a portfolio recently placed under the purview of the Department of State for Local Government and Lands. Mr. Jammeh thus becomes the first holder of the post which has been newly created under the Department of State for Religious Affairs.