Health Cluster

MOGADISHU — The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), in collaboration with the Southwest State Ministry of Women, Human Rights and Development, today organized an online training for Somali women leaders to enhance their participation in the political and decision-making process of their country. The seminar titled Ensuring Women Political Representation …

GAROWE — Puntland state house minister Mohamed Hassan Isse has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, the second minister to die of the virus in Garowe. Isse died on Saturday in Garowe hospital three days after he tested positive for COVID-19 in Garowe, the administrative capital of Puntland state. Deputy …

MOGADISHU — The health system of any country needs a surveillance system that can collect information on and detect alerts of epidemic-prone diseases. When a number of cases threaten to turn into an outbreak or epidemic, the surveillance system sounds an alarm that triggers a chain of immediate public health …

MOGADISHU — Uganda Peoples’Defence Forces (UPDF) serving under African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have received medical support donated by “give to the world”, a US organization, in a symbolic handover function at the Sector one headquarters in Mogadishu. The medical items included medicines like; anthelmintic, antifungal, antiallergy, antibiotics (oral), …

MOGADISHU — The President of the federal republic of Somalia H.E Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo extends his condolences to the people of Somalia on the death of Somalia Veteran Doctor Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe, SONNA reported. President Farmajo shared his sudd to the family of Dr. Hawa Abdi and the people of …

MOGADISHU — Prominent Somali human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Hawa Abdi has died. She was 73 years old. The exact date and cause of death of Abdi, popularly known as Mama Hawa, was not clearly established. Somali National Television (SNTV), however, reported that she died after …

GENEVA  — The Emergency Committee on COVID-19, convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), held its fourth meeting on 31 July. In its statement following the meeting, published today, it expressed “appreciation for WHO and partners’ COVID-19 pandemic response efforts, and highlighted the anticipated lengthy …

MOGADISHU — The Somali government has opened a new Coronavirus quarantine center at the Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu. Acting Prime Minister Mahdi Mohamed Guled presided over the launch of the facility, which consists of 87 rooms and contains 300 beds and other equipment necessary for the fight against the Coronavirus …

MOGADISHU — In the recent past, 25-year-old Zahra Mohamud* had visited the Hawadle maternal and child health centre in Hargeisa regularly to have her older son Ibrahim* vaccinated against the most common childhood diseases. However, since the COVID-19 outbreak in Somalia, Zahra has been afraid to take her 7-month-old second …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s total number of Covid-19 cases has risen to 3,178 after seven more infections were recorded in the country in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Social care has reported. The seven new cases were registered in Somaliland, 5 cases and Banadir region, 2 cases. …