Eyewitness News
Thursday, September 08, 2011
According to the United Nations (UN), tens of thousands have already died in recent months and hundreds of thousands more continued battling with famine and drought.
The crisis took its biggest toll on Somalian children.
In one incident witnessed by this reporter, a hurried mother rushed down the children’s wing at Banadir Hospital.
She was holding a baby in a bundle of cloth, clutching a single Somali Shilling note.
German ICU nurse Phillip Valentine who has been working in the paediatric ward for several weeks said that patients confirmed they walked 300-400km on foot for treatment.
“These families often start the journey with five or six children but some of them die along the way.”
He said this had become part and parcel of daily life in Somalia.