{"id":14367,"date":"2024-06-13T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T08:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=14367"},"modified":"2024-06-13T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T08:30:49","slug":"who-launches-new-project-to-help-900k-somalis-affected-by-climate-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2024\/06\/13\/who-launches-new-project-to-help-900k-somalis-affected-by-climate-events\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO launches new project to help 900K Somalis affected by climate events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Wednesday that it has launched a new project to reach nearly 900,000 people with life-saving interventions by 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WHO said the project is targeting people in Somalia who are still living with the impacts of extreme climate events such as floods and drought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The project will also strengthen referral linkages between communities and health facilities to improve quality, access, and coverage of critical care. This includes in-patient treatment at stabilization centers for children with severe acute malnutrition with medical complications,&#8221; the UN health agency said in a statement issued in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WHO said the new project follows the completion of an earlier project that benefited more than 3 million people affected by drought and floods in Somalia with integrated health and nutrition services. &#8220;It targets 15 flood- and drought-affected districts across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WHO said it aims to mitigate the health impacts of recurrent climate shocks, food insecurity, and disease outbreaks, especially cholera, while strengthening health system resilience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the WHO, Somalia has an ongoing cholera outbreak, which has been made worse since the floods of December 2023, which destroyed sanitation facilities and caused further displacements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Forecasts predict that the outbreak will continue due to the heavy Gu (April-to-June) rains, potentially leading to flash floods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WHO said it will also assist Somalia&#8217;s Ministry of Health and Human Services in strengthening prevention, early detection, and prompt response to disease outbreaks, including cholera, at the district level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20240613\/94978a9896f14108aefdb7f9692e5759\/c.html\" 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; The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Wednesday that it has launched a new project to reach nearly 900,000 people with life-saving interventions by 2024. The WHO said the project is targeting people in Somalia who are still living with the impacts of extreme climate events such as floods and drought. &#8220;The project will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14367","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\/14367","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=14367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14368,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14367\/revisions\/14368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}