Shipments of Direct Relief-provided medications are helping stabilize care at Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital, or EFSTH, where shortages once forced staff to improvise, according to the hospital’s chief medical director. Since December 2024, Direct Relief has sent 13 shipments of medical aid to EFSTH. An additional shipment worth $2.9 million is staged for delivery, including antibiotics, diabetes medications, cardiovascular drugs, and mental health treatments. An infant receives care at Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in the Gambia. (Courtesy image) The hospital is located in the Gambia, mainland Africa’s smallest country, which is home to about 2.7 million people. It is bordered on all sides, except for the coast, by Senegal and stretches narrowly inland along both banks of the Gambia River. The hospital is located in the capital, Banjul, and the facility is the country’s only teaching and referral hospital. “It’s incredible, and it’s coming at a really great time,” said Dr.…