The absence of medical staff in Somalia

The absence of medical staff in Somalia
Showing the absence of medical staff in Somalia, the lives of people at risk, such as civil wars reap their lives, and death is stalking them in each hand.
Somalis are dying from diseases such as diarrhea, easy treatment, malaria and measles
Abdelfattah Nour - Bossaso


Showing the absence of medical staff in Somalia, the lives of people at risk, such as civil wars reap their lives, and death is stalking them in each hand.


The Solicitor General of the Ministry of Health Somali Daala Adam Mohamed said Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis of a very complex represented by the absence of qualified medical staff initiate the medical work, and relieve the suffering of the Somali people and Oalathm continuous throughout the last twenty years.


The Daala during his interview with that the absence of medical staff in Somalia covers all disciplines and fields of medicine, said it is not limited to physicians, but nurses and workers in the fields of medical examination and X-ray and experiences pharmacy, all disciplines that are not in the arena of medical Somali.


He added that Somalis dying from diseases for easy treatment, such as diarrhea, malaria, measles, and also cases of deaths during childbirth, and these diseases are not found in records of some countries as serious diseases claim the lives of citizens, "but we are still paying too much, due to a lack of medical staff and poor diagnosis caused by the lack of test equipment and the inefficiency of doctors working in the areas of health. "


He pointed out that Daala city Mogadishu alone, home to more than two and a half million people and has no public hospitals only seven and ten private hospitals lack the minimum components and specifications of hospitals, in terms of the medical staff and the quality of medical equipment used.


Daala: live in Mogadishu more than 2.5 million people and is not the only seven public hospitals)
Migration of staff
After the collapse of the Somali government and exacerbate political and security crisis emigrated doctors abroad, in search of a safe place, like other minds Somali in all areas, and remained in the yard a small number of doctors can not only deal with the numbers of patients, who are growing because of new victims in a spiral of violence between in the country.


Among those who work inside Somalia Omar Ismail Mohammed, an eye doctor only works in the city of Bossaso port in the far east of Somalia, with a population of seven hundred thousand people, and have age - as mention of the island - to serve periods of many in his private clinic, to receive patients and give them a prescription and conduct the necessary inspections.


And Omer Ismail is a physician Somali studied ophthalmology in Europe and worked in a hospital in the Republic of Finland, and says he returned to Somalia after he discovered the need for urgent medical staff shall fill the void medical caused by the collapse of the central government, and the migration of medical staff and stability outside Somalia.


Says Omar, "I appeal to all doctors who are outside the country to return home and help the victims of their children, who suffer from the scourge of war, must be for doctors to heal wounds and contribute to alleviate the suffering of Somalis rather than stability in developed countries and reached the limit of self-sufficiency in the fields of medicine different."


In speaking of the eye diseases that afflict the Somali doctor pointed out that the disease glaucoma "glaucoma" is the most common among other diseases such as infection spread widely among the Somalis.


At the same time, considering that the lack of health awareness is essential to increasing the suffering of patients and exacerbate their health conditions.


Ali Abdi: Somalia has since the collapse of the central government from the problem of the absence of medical staff




Graduating qualified
The good news, Professor Ali Abdi Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of East Africa, says that in Bossaso Somalia since the collapse of the central government suffers from the problem of the absence of medical staff.


The good news - in a statement of the island - the Puntland regions of Somalia, home to more than three million people, employs a doctor sixtieth only a small number compared with the number of people living in these areas.


The good news that there are some medical specialties experiencing absence from the scene entirely medical in Somalia, and among these specialties: ear, nose and throat, and neurologists, and skin diseases, as well as various surgical specialties.


He pointed out that there is a real gap between those who graduated from medical schools throughout the war years, and they do not exceed the dozen doctors - according to latest statistics - and the number of people affected by wars and internal problems.


"I do not need to think seriously about how to get the human cadres medical trainer, and this can be achieved only launched Sorouh scientific work as a safety valve for the Somali society, and graduated from medical staff working side by side with staff the previous working experience long-lasting in the medical field in Somalia, and If we succeed in this matter as far as possible we tried to find radical solutions to the problem of the absence of medical staff in Somalia. "