MSF Somalia: Free healthcare offers a lifeline to mothers and children in Mudug Region
When Fatima Abdi Ali, 32, experienced life‑threatening complications in her seventh pregnancy, she and her husband travelled more than 125 kilometres, crossing from Ethiopia to reach Mudug Regional Hospital in Galkayo North. It was the nearest facility equipped for such an emergency. On arrival, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams performed an urgent caesarean […]
HOW BEHAVIOUR CHANGE CAN REDUCE MALNUTRITION AMONG CHILDREN IN IDP CAMPSIN SOMALIA
Malnutrition is one of the leading causes of childhood mortality worldwide Each year, more than 5.9 million children under the age of five die around the world; 45% of these deaths are attributed to malnutrition. Somalia is among the countries with the highest prevalence of malnutrition in children under the age of five years. Siteey […]
DOUBLE TRAGEDY: SAF-UK empowers a mother to save her twins from malnutrition
POSTED AUGUST 1, 2019 MEDIA@SAFUK.ORG Malnutritioned child eating Ready To Use Therapeutic Food Kahda,Mogadishu June 2019– A look of permanent worry is etched on the face of Roodo Issack, a mother of six, as she watches her last born twins silently suffering; their bodies emaciated and skin hanging from bare bones. As she sits outside her ramshackle […]
SHF SUPPORTING SAF-UK HEALTH AND NUTRITION PROJECTS IN HOBYO DISTRICT
The health situation in Hobyo remains fragile with women and children being most vulnerable. The key issues for women and children remain access to prevention and treatment interventions in the absence of a fully functional health system. SAF UK has been implementing nutrition (OTP, TSFP, MCHN and BSFP) and health projects in north Hobyo for […]
HOW SAF-UK IS IMPROVING NUTRITION OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN IDP CAMPS IN KISMAYO.
Like any other IDP camp across the world, living conditions of Dalxiska are desperate and tough. Lack of adequate nutritious food coupled with unsanitary sources of drinking water from the wells in the camps daily put the lives of children living there in danger. “Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental […]
