Turkey to set up second hospital in Somalia

Turkish Health Ministry will set up a second field hospital in Somalia within the scope of Turkey's assistance to the famine-stricken country.

The second hospital will be set up near the former parliamentary building where shelters take place, and it will be resistant to heavy climate condition.

Health Ministry Somalia team's head, Dr. Akif Saatcioglu, told AA on Saturday that the second hospital would be larger than the first one which the ministry previously set up in the region.

Saatcioglu said the second hospital would take place one of the best places of capital Mogadishu, adding that it would be close both to shelters and the city center.

The hospital will begin to serve patients soon, he added.

Turkey set up one field hospital and one mobile hospital, and now the second field hospital in Mogadishu, thus, it will be able to help people in a very large part of the capital.

Somalia is 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.


/World Bulletin/