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Somalia pioneers implementation of an integrated disease surveillance and response strategy in a fragile setting
Participants at the IDSRS workshop formed groups to discuss topics such as the importance of focused disease surveillance in the context of the health challenges facing Somalia Why Somalia needed to implement the integrated disease surveillance and response strategy As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, the world is becoming a smaller place and...
Making mental health care for all a reality in Somalia: United Nations and the Government join forces to scale up quality mental health services at all levels of care
Mogadishu,10 October 2021 – For this year’s World Mental Health Day, the WHO global theme is ‘Mental health care for all: Let’s make it a reality’. Over the past year, there is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the mental health of millions across the world, especially health and other frontline workers, people...
French President and WHO Director-General commend Somali doctors who participated in WHO Academy certified training course on dealing with mass casualties
Photo: Dr Siyad Mohamed Abdi (bottom right) addresses Dr Tedros, President Macron and WHO Academy Executive Director, Dr Agnès Buzyn (top right) during the groundbreaking ceremony in France, while health professionals from other countries listen to the discussion, 27 September 2021 MOGADISHU, 29 September 2021 – The World Health Organization...
Newly established WHO Academy credits response of Somali health workers to mass casualty events
29 September 2021 – Three decades after a civil war and several natural and manmade disasters, the resilience of Somali communities and health workers have been put to test many times. Each time the sound of an explosion reverberates across a city or town, under-resourced health facilities scattered sparsely across the country can expect to...
Creating a safe environment for mothers and newborns in Somalia
16 September 2021 – As the Head of Nurses and Midwives and Capacity Building at the Banadir Hospital, Sahra Mire Mohamed assists midwives to offer mothers and newborns safe and quality care. She ensures that midwives she trains perform safe deliveries, supervises regular mother and child health services offered to mothers and newborns, and helps them...
World Patient Safety Day: Somalia, UN urge all stakeholders to redouble efforts to keep mothers and newborns safe in midst of COVID-19 pandemic
Mogadishu, 17 September 2021 – While commemorating World Patient Safety Day yesterday, the Federal Government of Somalia, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), urged health facilities, health care workers and other stakeholders to step up...
Protecting Somalis from COVID-19 while creating a fairer, more equitable world
A health care worker briefs an elderly gentleman after he receives his COVID-19 vaccines, Banadir Hospital, March 2021. Photo: WHO 15 September 2021 – Since the day the news of availability of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines emerged, the Federal Government of Somalia has worked hand in hand with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other key...
Somalia makes progress in establishing seasonal influenza surveillance to protect vulnerable communities from future pandemics
15 September 2021 – Somalia is one of the few countries in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region without a functioning surveillance system for seasonal influenza. The electronic-based Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) surveillance system used in Somalia enables health workers, as well as state and national surveillance teams, to conduct...
Germany donates 1.3 million face masks to WHO for its COVID-19 response work in Somalia: more face masks means more people protected
Mogadishu, 31 August 2021 – The Ministry of Health of the Federal Republic of Germany has made in-kind donations of surgical and medical masks to the World Health Organization (WHO) over the past months. As part of this donation, the WHO country office in Somalia, received today 1 386 000 surgical and medical face masks for its work in Somalia as...
World Humanitarian Day: story from the field
19 August 2021 – World Humanitarian Day recognizes aid workers who put their lives on the line to help others, particularly during times of crisis. At the World Health Organization (WHO) country office in Somalia, humanitarian workers conduct their duties without hesitating, standing tall in the face of all kinds of challenges to support the Federal...
