Health Cluster

Most residents live more than two hours from a surgeon, and many cannot afford care, Baylor University researcher says Children in Somaliland suffer a significant burden of health conditions — particularly congenital deformities and wound-related conditions — that could be bettered by surgery, but most of these needs are being …

BALA’AD(SOHA) – Measles outbreaks in rural parts of two regions of central and southern Somalia are causing concern due to the lack of access to adequate health care facilities in both places. The measles outbreaks in Bala’d in Middle Shabelle region and Dhusamareeb in Galmudug region both began last December. …

HARGEISA(SOHA) – Turkey’s state aid agency provided medical equipment to a hospital in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, according to a statement on Tuesday. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) said 216 devices and medical equipment including an ultrasound device, echocardiography equipment, autoclave were provided for the Hargeisa State …

HARGEISA(SOHA) – Hargeisa General Hospital has recorded 478 cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the last 45 days, marking a significant rise of the deadly infectious disease. The hospital report shows that 300 of the people diagnosed with TB came from rural areas of Sanaag, Togdher, and the western coast of …

KISMAYO(SOHA) – Yurub Ali Hassan, 28, can see a new future opening up in front of her after undergoing successful fistula surgery in Kismayo town, southern Somalia. She had been leading a normal life until six years ago when she was attended by a traditional birth attendant. The labour was …

HARGEISA(SOHA) – Save the Children in coordination with Somaliland health ministry have launched an awareness and treatment campaign for pneumonia in a bid to reduce child deaths from this often overlooked disease. Somaliland’s ministry of health records show that 14,000deathsfrom pneumonia in 2017. Save the Children, an NGO, trained 90 …

JOWHAR(SOHA) – A mass livestock immunisation campaign has begun in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region targeting over one million goats and sheep. The vaccinations started in 100 villages in Jowhar, Mahaday, Bal’ad, Warsheikh, and Adale amid an outbreak of sheep measles (Cysticercusovis) and sheep and goat pox (SGP). Omar Adan Samatar, …

BUHODLE(SOHA) – Dozens of patients suffering from mental disorders have been sent home from Buhodle Mental Hospital because their families in the drought-hit region of northern Somalia failed to pay the medical bills. Jama Ahmed Salad took his brother and his nephew to the hospital after they became ill.  They were …

BURAO (SOHA) – Over 40 cases of whooping cough (also known as pertussis) have been reported in Odanle village, 180 km south of Burao, Togdher region, in November. Suleiman Hassan Abdi, an official from Somaliland’s health ministry, confirmed the outbreak of the respiratory infection. “Families including adult and children have …

DADAAB (SOHA) – Thousands of Somali refugees in Dhagahley camp in Dadaab, northeastern Kenya, are bearing the brunt of weeks of a doctors’ pay strike. Health services have been paralysed in three health centres in the camp after 426 health practitioners including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and interns went on …