Health Cluster

MOGADISHU — In June 2021, Osman Mohamed, 18, from Mogadishu, felt unwell for over a week. He was quickly getting tired and was coughing a lot. He decided to go to the hospital and was diagnosed with COVID-19. “I felt so stressed out when the doctor said I had tested …

DOHA — Ali bin Hassan Al Hammadi, Secretary-General of Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS), recently met Adam Abdelmoula, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia. He was accompanied by a delegation that comprised Ian Ridley, Head of Office, the United Nations Office for the Coordination …

MOGADISHU — Dozens of Somali shop owners, shop assistants and other business persons operating at the ‘Marine Market’ inside the Halane Base Camp in Mogadishu have started receiving COVID-19 vaccines, courtesy of Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) serving under the Africa Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The traders received the …

MOGADISHU — The Ministry of Health of the Federal Republic of Germany has made in-kind donations of surgical and medical masks to the World Health Organization (WHO) over the past months. As part of this donation, the WHO country office in Somalia, received today 1 386 000 surgical and medical …

GEDO — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Somalia Red Crescent Society (SRCS) are dismayed by Saturday’s arson attack on the Bardere clinic in Somalia’s Gedo region. The fire, instigated by protestors, destroyed the SRCS clinic while three staff were also injured in the incident. “Our …

MOGADISHU — Somalia on Saturday launched the COVID-19 vaccination exercise for its civil servants. Announcing this, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Abdiwahab Ugaas said, “I have today launched the vaccination program for COVID-19 for all government employees, as an effort to prevent the …

MOGADISHU — Somalia has confirmed 136 new COVID-19 cases in the last 48 hours, bringing the national tally to 16,535, the country’s health ministry said Thursday. A total of 2,666 samples were tested across the country in the past 48 hours, and the latest confirmed cases were all local infections, …

MOGADISHU — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) renewed its unwavering commitment to enhance the protection, health, and wellbeing of the most vulnerable children in Somalia by contributing an additional $20 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). This new contribution brings USAID’s funding to UNICEF Somalia …

GAROWE — Authorities in Somalia’s Puntland region have warned of an upsurge of the COVID-19 pandemic as the Federal Government records over 30 deaths in the last week alone. Garowe Mayor Ahmed Sa’id Muse said Saturday ten people had succumbed to the disease in one week with several infections recorded …

MOGADISHU — Abdullahi Abyan Nur, Somalia’s chairman Electoral Disputes Resolution Committee(EDRC), died from Covid-19 at De-Martini Hospital in Mogadishu on Friday night. His death was confirmed by Chairman at the Federal Electoral Implementation Team (FEIT) Mohamed Irro. He was admitted to De-Martini Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on last …