Assistance
Health
- 22 tonnes of medical supplies were airlifted to health facilities in Mogadishu;
- 20,000 packets of oral rehydration salts were sent to the five rehydration treatment centres in Mogadishu and other medical facilities in the central and southern regions to treat cases of light and moderate watery diarrhoeas. Since April 15, more than 1,000 people were treated in Mogadishu alone;
- a surgical team sent Baidoa has so far performed 18 operations;
- since the first of January, 1,700 weapon wounded have been treated in Medina and Keysaney hospitals;
- 3,000 weapon wounded were treated by medical facilities supported by the ICRC in central and southern Somalia, including 2,250 treated by health centres in Mogadishu (weapon wounded figures are based on the period 1 January to 1 May 2007).
The capacity of Keysaney hospital has had to be increased to cope with the large number of new arrivals. Located in North Mogadishu, the facility is run by the Somali Red Crescent and has been supported by the ICRC since 1991. Madina hospital in South Mogadishu is run with local community participation and has been supported by the ICRC since 1999. The ICRC provides these two surgical referral facilities with monthly consignments of surgical and other supplies, salaries for staff and maintenance support. It also trains medical and technical staff and works to upgrade the hospitals' infrastructure.
Other medical facilities in Mogadishu that are admitting and treating wounded people are being assisted on an ad hoc basis.
Water
- 274,000 litres of water are being distributed to over 60,000 people daily
People who have fled Mogadishu to Lower and Middle Shebele and southern Galgudud have had difficulty finding sufficient drinking water. The ICRC is trucking survival rations to them.
Essential household items
- Over 154,000 people (25,700 families) have received essential household items (Bay, Lower and Middle Shabelle and North Galgadud regions);
- 24,000 people (4,000 families) in Mogadishu (Danile) have so far received essential household items.
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©ICRC/P. Yazdi/so-e-00242
Lower Juba region. Somali Red Crescent volunteers distributing clothes to children.
©ICRC/B. Schaeffer/so-e-00180
Keysaney hospital, Mogadishu. Surgery on a war-wounded patient.
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