Monday June 6, 2022
Qatar Charity (QC) has opened a health centre in Bosaso, a
city in Somalia’s Puntland state.
The facility is expected to benefit more than 10,000
underprivileged people in the area and other neighbouring areas.
The opening was attended by Bosaso mayor Abdelghani Ahmed
Ismail, Sharq Governorate's Puntland ministry of health undersecretary Sayeed
Mohamed Warabi, and other officials from the ministry.
The centre consists of departments such as reproductive
health, medical examination, emergency, vaccination, laboratory, radiology,
pharmacy, and service facilities.
The health services provided by the centre will contribute
to improving the health standard, reducing the mortality rates of pregnant
women and children under the age of five, and lowering the rate of infectious
and endemic diseases.
Warabi said that the QC is actively contributing to the
health sector in Somalia in general, especially in Puntland, where many health
centres were built in different cities, contributing to delivering health
services to those most in need in villages and remote areas.
Bosaso mayor Ismail thanked the benefactors of Qatar and the
QC for implementing this project, indicating that this area needed such a
project, as the nearest health centre is 5km away.
The opening of the health centre comes at a time when the
health sector of Somalia is affected by drought, contributing to the doubling
of visits to health facilities.
Last year, the QC built five health centres in Puntland,
Galmudug state, South West state of Somalia, and Banadir region.
Currently, five health centres and nine childbirth and
maternity units are under construction.
These health projects come under the agreement signed by the
QC and Somalia’s ministry of health and social care.