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16-09-2008  Photo Collection  
Somalia: bringing health and hope to a beleaguered people
The ICRC has extended its support to 32 Somali Red Crescent clinics in central and southern Somalia, which have treated over 140,000 patients and provided more than 60,000 vaccinations since January 2008. The organization also continues to support the two surgical referral hospitals in Mogadishu, Medina and Keysaney.

© ICRC / P. Yazdi / so-e-00361

Ulayma, with her sick three-year-old boy.

The clinics are each staffed with a midwife, a registered nurse and an auxiliary nurse. The midwife is in charge of prenatal and post-natal care, the registered nurse treats common diseases in adults such as diarrhoea and malaria and the auxiliary nurse takes care of dressings and the treatment of wounds.




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