HEALTH
Mental health centre in southern Somalia runs short of food
(ERGO) - The only live-in mental health care centre in Baidoa is facing difficulty feeding and treating patients due to...
Refugee boy Ali, 7, dies of cholera as floods cause disease outbreak in Dadaab camps
(ERGO) - Seven-year-old Ali Salaat Ali died of cholera on 25 April in Hagardera in the Dadaab refugee camp complex,...
Child Polio vaccination campaign in Mogadishu – some parents consent, others still resist
(ERGO) - More than 600 health workers from the 17 districts in Somalia’s Benadir region were deployed last week in...
Maternal deaths in southern Mudug’s Bacaadweyne – 200 km from nearest hospital
Eleven women have died in the last two months due to childbirth complications in Bacaadweyne district in central Somalia’s Mudug...
Women with fistula in Dadaab refugee camps feeling hopeless and abandoned
(ERGO) - Halima Haji (not her real name), a Somali refugee living in Kenya’s Dadaab camps, has suffered from fistula...
Drinking water from holes in dry river bed causes diarrhoea deaths in Jowhar
(ERGO) - Three children and two adults have died recently from diarrhoea in the Intersos-run hospital in Jowhar, in southern...
First hospital brings relief to pregnant women and other patients in southern Mudug town
The first hospital ever to open in Banadiiradley, in southern Mudug region, has been seeing hundreds of patients in its...
HIV/AIDS stigma forces people to hide away in Kismayo
(ERGO) - Ali Daud, 46, has been evicted three times from rented houses in Kismayo, southern Somalia, when his landlords found...
Kismayo hospital coping with scores of malnourished children from rural areas
(ERGO) - Kismayo hospital has been inundated with dozens of malnourished children being brought in from remote rural parts of...
Breakdowns common among Somaliland’s destitute pastoralists
(ERGO) - Abdikarim Mohamed Ahmed, 47, has been under medication for four months and is set to be sent home...
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