Somalia

Our response to Covid-19 in Somalia

With an already depleted health care system, Somalia now also faces the new threat of the Covid-19.

Coronavirus is spreading rapidly in the country and will put the most vulnerable communities most at risk. Some regions lack the basic resources to fight the virus and healthcare facilities and hospitals are ill equipped to face a pandemic of this scale.

In settlement camps, where many displaced families live, social distancing is almost impossible.

We’ve been working with various stakeholders, including the Ministry of Health, as part of a coronavirus prevention plan in the country. We’re supporting the only quarantine hospital in the capital, Mogadishu and supporting the government’s response with vehicles, emergency staff and contact tracing, as well as supplying essential testing kits and personal protective equipment.

Action Against Hunger’s work in Somalia

Our programmes in Somalia continue to treat and screen children and pregnant and breastfeeding women for acute malnutrition. We’re benefiting these groups with primary health care consultations to improve their health and wellbeing.  Our programmes are supporting vulnerable families with cash transfers, allowing them access food and essential services during severe draught periods.

We’re distributing essential hygiene kits through our WaSH programmes and expanding our health services, under the essential primary health services package. We’re supporting public health facilities to provide health consultations, immunisation, ante-natal care, skilled birth delivery, postnatal care and nutrition services.