{"id":4867,"date":"2020-04-21T23:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2020-04-22T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T10:36:11","slug":"united-states-donates-350-hospital-beds-to-bolster-somalias-covid-19-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/04\/21\/united-states-donates-350-hospital-beds-to-bolster-somalias-covid-19-response\/","title":{"rendered":"United States donates 350 hospital beds to bolster Somalia\u2019s COVID-19 response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Somalia\u2019s efforts in fighting COVID-19 got a boost Monday following a donation of hospital beds and accessories by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.S embassy in Mogadishu handed over 350 beds and 500 bedsheets to the Ministry of Health Monday to support the government\u2019s efforts in \u2018preventing and controlling the spread of COVID-19.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">U.S ambassador to Somalia Donald Yamamoto said the donation will go a long way in curbing the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe United States is proud to assist the Somali Government during this critical time,\u201d said Yamamoto. \u201cWell equipped isolation centers where patients are well cared for and are safely and comfortably separated will help limit the spread of COVID-19 throughout the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The donation from USAID will be used in ICU units in De Martino hospital and in isolation centers in Mogadishu and be distributed to newly established isolation centers in the regions according to a statement from the embassy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Health Minister Fawziya Abikar said the donation makes it possible to save lives and better prepare the country to control the spread of the disease. \u201cTo beat this outbreak, everyone needs to continue to peacefully follow health guidelines, observe social distancing, and maintain good hygiene practices,\u201d said Abikar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Goobjoog News\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"http:\/\/goobjoog.com\/english\/u-s-donates-350-hospital-beds-to-bolster-somalias-covid-19-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; Somalia\u2019s efforts in fighting COVID-19 got a boost Monday following a donation of hospital beds and accessories by the U.S. government. The U.S embassy in Mogadishu handed over 350 beds and 500 bedsheets to the Ministry of Health Monday to support the government\u2019s efforts in \u2018preventing and controlling the spread of COVID-19.\u2019 U.S &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news","category-relief"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","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=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}