HEALTH
Undiagnosed illness spreads in Rako-Raho, Bari region, without health services to cope
(ERGO) - An unidentified disease has been spreading in Rako-Raho, Puntland’s Bari region, since early March, causing the local authorities...
Aid cuts bring misery and fear to HIV/AIDS patients in Bari region
Fadumo (her real name is concealed to protect her) is a mother of eight, struggling to survive in Boqolka-Buush internal...
Puntland’s healthcare system struggles to meet growing patient needs
When 25-year-old Osman Hassan Ali’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2024, he discovered that no facilities in...
Children die of diarrhoea and other diseases in Mogadishu IDP camps
Hawo Salah Ahmed, a mother of seven, lost her three-year-old son on 12 December 2024 after he suffered from diarrhoea...
Employment helps a young Somali overcome stigma against albinos
(ERGO) - Relaxed and confident after a more than a year in a secure job, Elmi Bile Mohamed can comfortably...
New hospital in remote village in eastern Bari region provides healthcare to drought-hit pastoralist families
(ERGO) - Farhiyo Ali Yusuf, a displaced pastoralist, was relieved to be able to deliver her third baby comfortably in...
Stigma and poverty face women with obstetric fistula in Dadaab
(ERGO) - Shamed by the constant stigma she attracts because of her fistula condition, Hindiya Abdiaziz Mohamud, 55, a refugee...
Hargeisa schoolchildren treated by Edna Adan hospital doctors
(ERGO) - 250 children from poor and displaced families living with various diseases including diabetes, epilepsy, heart diseases, and infections...
IDPs in Mogadishu have to choose between caring for sick children and working
(ERGO) - Poor sanitation and lack of healthcare are increasing the risks of vulnerable displaced families living in crowded camps...
Lower Shabelle village hospital struggles to contain a cholera outbreak
(ERGO) - Abukar Osman Ahmed, a father of four, carried his small son on his back from their village of...
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