Friday, November 25, 2011

Turkish Red Crescent to build schools in Somali capital Mogadishu

The Turkish Red Crescent Society stated on Thursday that it will open schools in the Somali capital of Mogadishu to train health personnel.

Red Crescent, which has been in Somalia for the past 4 months to provide humanitarian aid, will build a nursing school and a health technician vocational school. Red Crescent’s Somalia delegation head Şafak Lostar told the Anatolia news agency (AA) on Thursday that there is currently shortage of trained personnel in Somalia due to the civil war that has been going on for years, adding that the biggest shortage of trained personnel was in the health sector.

Noting that the construction of two buildings will begin in a month’s time, Lostar said that the project would be completed in ten months. Nearly 1,500 students will be trained in the schools every year, Lostar added.

Furthermore, Turkish medics provide medical assistance to the draught-stricken people of Somalia in aid camps, where the fatality rate among children has fallen by 90 percent over a short period of time due to the Turkish health services.

As a part of charity campaigns started by the Turkish charity organization Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There?), Turkish doctors have provided health services to 72,000 people since August. A group of 30 Turkish doctors goes to Somalia every 20 days, and leave when a new group of doctors arrive. Instead of providing temporary solutions, Kimse Yok Mu now plans to build a hospital to Turkish standards that will provide health care to the poor and needy in Somalia. Officials stated that land has already been bought for the hospital, which will have 100-bed capacity.

Source: The Todays Zaman

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