{"id":11035,"date":"2022-10-01T05:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T05:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=11035"},"modified":"2022-10-02T10:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T10:43:31","slug":"health-care-in-underserved-areas-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2022\/10\/01\/health-care-in-underserved-areas-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Health care in underserved areas in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOGADISHU —<\/strong> Living conditions are dire for the residents of Galbarwaaqo village, located between Somalia\u2019s Galkayo and Hobyo districts. Most residents in the village, which has a population of around 1,200 households, are pastoralists, and in the last five years the village has experienced recurrent droughts, locust infestations and COVID-19. These issues have drastically reduced residents\u2019 household income and increased the poverty rate.<\/p>\n

With support from the Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF), Cesvi is the only organization in the village providing basic health facilities, including integrated management of childhood and maternal diseases, and safe motherhood services, such as antenatal and prenatal care, immunizations and delivery services.<\/p>\n

Sumayo Nur is one of the pregnant women in the village who has access to the health centre. The recent drought significantly affected her family; they lost all their livestock and decided to move to Galbarwaaqo village in search of a better life.<\/p>\n

Three months into her pregnancy, Sumayo is registered under a medical and nursing care services programme. She explained: \u201cI am a mother of two children. I remember when I was giving birth to my first two children, it was different. During my first childbirth I was not in Galbarwaaqo; I was living in a nearby village called Dawgaab, where I had no access to any health-care facility. I was suffering some major health issues at that time, and the nearest health service was in Galkayo, where you have to pay about US$120 to rent a car. We couldn\u2019t afford that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poverty is a major barrier to accessing health care. Many people, especially women, have died because they couldn\u2019t get the help they needed. Establishing the health centre in Galbarwaaqo has helped countless people in the village by providing affordable health care.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have qualified people at the health centre taking care of me,\u201d said Sumayo. \u201cThere was a time when we couldn\u2019t afford my medical expenses, but now I\u2019m happy that I get free medicines. I\u2019m happy with the support I have received, as this has not only improved my well-being but also has enabled me to take care of my family too.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the rapidly worsening drought situation has caused large-scale displacement, safe and equal access to resources has become essential. Through its partner organizations, SHF is conducting specialized interventions mainly in health, nutrition, and water, sanitation and hygiene.<\/p>\n

Source: UNOCHA\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: View original<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOGADISHU — Living conditions are dire for the residents of Galbarwaaqo village, located between Somalia\u2019s Galkayo and Hobyo districts. Most residents in the village, which has a population of around 1,200 households, are pastoralists, and in the last five years the village has experienced recurrent droughts, locust infestations and COVID-19. These issues have drastically reduced …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11038,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035\/revisions\/11038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}