Nearly 30,000 patients have been treated in tent hospitals and shelters which were set up by Turkish Health Ministry in capital Mogadishu of famine-stricken Somalia.

Turkish Health Ministry Somalia team’s head doctor Akif Saatcioglu told AA on Monday that they had been helping Somali people with 25 health personnel, adding that they were treating approximately 1,000 patients daily in tent hospital and shelters.

Saatcioglu noted that 50 percent of patients were women, 30 percent were children and 20 percent were men.

He said that 30 percent of the patients were suffering from respiratory infection, 15 percent from diarrhea, 10 percent from skin diseases, five percent from eye diseases, and 40 percent from the other diseases.

Somalia is currently facing with one of the worst droughts in the past 60 years.

The epicenter of the drought lies on the three-way border shared by Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, a nomadic region where families heavily depend on the health of their livestock. Uganda and Djibouti have also been hit by the disaster.

Tens of thousands of people have so far been displaced due to the humanitarian situation in the region.

AA

Comments

comments