Doha, December 13 (QNA) – Qatar Charity has opened a maternity unit at Kedda Health Center in the Banadir region of Somalia.
It is expected that 8,000 women and children will benefit from this center, as maternal and child services, reproductive health, awareness, and health education will be provided.
The opening of the maternity unit comes as part of the health center built by Qatar Charity in 2008, at a time when the region suffers from an acute shortage of childbirth services and health awareness.
This project is a qualitative leap in the region in terms of improving the health facility for mothers and newborns. It also aims to reduce the death rate of pregnant mothers during childbirth, in addition to reducing infant mortality Under the age of five due to the spread of infectious diseases.
In this context, the health official in Banadir region, Muhammad Mahmoud Adou, said: “We thank the good people in Qatar and Qatar Charity for adding this health unit, which came to fill a void that mothers lack in this region.”
He added, “Somalia needs these targeted projects, and we hope that everyone, international humanitarian organizations, and businessmen, will join efforts to carry out projects similar to what Qatar Charity is doing.”
For his part, the official of the Kedda region, Muhammad Yousef Mahmoud, praised the great role played by Qatar Charity by advancing development and raising the level of the health field to reach the health and well-being that they aspire to achieve. The district official also confirmed that they are facing a deficit in public services in general and health services in light of the increasing number of displacement cases and the inability of the camps to accommodate their needs.
It is worth noting that Qatar Charity built, in 2022, 5 health centers and 9 maternity and maternity centers in Somalia. It also operated two health centers and a mobile clinic to provide health services to the displaced in the cities of Mogadishu in the Banadir region and Burhakaba in the Bay region, southwestern Somalia.
These health projects come within the agreement signed between Qatar Charity and the Somali Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, which aims to ensure the effective participation of Qatar Charity in health projects in Somalia.
Qatar Charity previously operated medical convoys to provide relief to those affected by disasters in Somalia, providing first aid and giving priority to intervention to the areas and population groups most in need.
(QNA)