{"id":13725,"date":"2024-04-02T08:36:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T08:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=13725"},"modified":"2024-04-02T08:36:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T08:36:35","slug":"somali-president-appoints-dr-jiley-as-special-envoy-for-health-and-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2024\/04\/02\/somali-president-appoints-dr-jiley-as-special-envoy-for-health-and-nutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali president appoints Dr. Jiley as special envoy for health and nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has named Dr. Abdirashid Mohamed Nur Jiley as Somalia&#8217;s Special Envoy for Health and Nutrition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Jiley, a federal MP for South West State with a background in health and nutrition, is set to spearhead efforts to address the severe malnutrition and lack of healthcare access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Dr. Jiley&#8217;s expertise in health and nutrition is key to advancing Somalia&#8217;s healthcare vision,&#8221; stated an official release from Somalia&#8217;s state news agency. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His selection comes at a critical juncture, as the country faces alarmingly high rates of malnutrition, compounded by climate change-induced disasters, locust infestations, the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and persistent conflicts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Multi-Sector Needs Assessments (MSNA) report from February 2024 highlights the dire situation, projecting that\u00a01.8 million children will suffer\u00a0from acute malnutrition this year, including around 500,000 severely malnourished. A nutritious diet costs around USD 7 for a family of five, an inaccessible expense in a country where 69 percent of the population survive on less than USD 2 per day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: HOL\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/hiiraan.com\/news4\/2024\/Apr\/195699\/president_hsm_appoints_dr_jiley_as_special_envoy_for_health_and_nutrition.aspx?utm_source=hiiraan&amp;utm_medium=SomaliNewsUpdateFront\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has named Dr. Abdirashid Mohamed Nur Jiley as Somalia&#8217;s Special Envoy for Health and Nutrition. Dr. Jiley, a federal MP for South West State with a background in health and nutrition, is set to spearhead efforts to address the severe malnutrition and lack of healthcare access. &#8220;Dr. Jiley&#8217;s expertise &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news","category-nutrition-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13725","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=13725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13728,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13725\/revisions\/13728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}