Health Cluster

MOGADISHU — Somalia received 302,400 doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, donated by the US through the COVAX facility, a global initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. Thanking the US for the donation in a statement late Thursday, Somalia’s Health Ministry said this was the first batch …

NEW YORK — China on Thursday said that it is ready to make positive contribution to lasting peace in Somalia. “We stand ready to work with the international community to make positive contribution to lasting peace and sustainable development in Somalia,” Dai Bing, charge d’affaires of China’s permanent mission to …

NAIROBI/GENEVA — The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has warned that Somalia is on the cusp of a humanitarian catastrophe. One in 4 people face high levels of acute food insecurity and more than 800,000 children under the age of five are at risk of …

MOGADISHU — The Ministry of Health and Human Service of the Federal Government of Somalia has delivered emergency medical supplies and drugs to Jowhar, the capital of HirShabelle state. The Ministry handed over the equipment to the Minister of the State for Health and the Director-General of the Ministry of …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s First Lady Saynab Abdi Moallim lauded the Qatari support for the Somali people, which are extended to implement developmental projects and alleviate the suffering of the vulnerable in times of adversities. This came in a speech Moallim delivered during the inaugural ceremony of the health centre built …

MOGADISHU — Somalia on Sunday received 108,000 additional doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to help intensify the fight against the pandemic in the country. The vaccines were donated by the French government through the COVAX Facility in continued efforts to protect Somalia’s population from COVID-19. Fawziya Abikar Nur, Somali …

MOGADISHU — Students pursuing a degree in Nursing from Mogadishu University(MU) do not have to repeat the course in the U.S since their qualifications match those of their peers in U.S universities, an international evaluation organization in the U.S has established. In its assessment of a nursing graduate from Mogadishu …

MOGADISHU — Somalia has recorded 53 new cases of Coronavirus in the last 24 hours raising the total number of confirmed cases in the Horn of African Nation to 15,456. Out of the new cases, 29 males and 24 are female according to the health ministry. Two people have succumbed …

MOGADISHU — De Martini hospital director, Dr. Abdirizak Yusuf Ahmed,  tested positive for the COVID-19 in Turkey on Wednesday. Abdirizak who travelled to Turkey to donate one kidney to his brother had undergone a Rapid Antigen Test which came in positive. “ I would like to inform my Somali brothers …

MOGADISHU — Somalia has on Saturday reported twenty-three new COVID-19 cases in the past 48 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 15,203. According to the health ministry, eight patients recovered from the disease in the last 48 hours, bringing the total number of people who recovered from the …