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Somalia: SOS mother seriously injured and former SOS child killed in
separate attacks
01/09/2008 - At 10.00 am local time on Sunday, 31 August, fighting broke out
in the Medina area of Mogadishu where some of the SOS families have been
relocated.
(http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/News-and-Media/News/GalleryImages/mogadishu-mother.jpg) The SOS mothers in Mogadishu are deeply committed to
the wellbeing of their children - Photo: A. Gabriel
Hearing the shooting SOS mother Fahamu hurried to get her children inside and
in the process was hit by a stray bullet in the chest. She was assisted by
another co-worker, but due to the heavy fighting it was 15 minutes before they
could leave for the hospital.
Once there, an SOS youth leader donated blood and Fahamu underwent surgery
on Sunday afternoon. She is now conscious and on the road to recovery. The
Medina Hospital is an ICRC hospital in the south of Mogadishu. The SOS Hospital
is in the north of the town and is often inaccessible due to a large military
presence in the area.
The SOS families were evacuated from the SOS Children's Village (which is
just opposite the SOS Hospital) last December, after the village was hit by
mortar fire and an SOS family assistant was killed.
In a separate incident a former SOS youth was shot dead last Thursday
evening (28 August) in Afgoye, 22 km from Mogadishu. He was visiting an SOS
satellite clinic at the time when he was approached by thieves who wanted to take
his mobile phone. Resisting them, he was shot in the neck and died at the SOS
clinic shortly afterwards. Alas was 26 and, following his disengagement from
the children's village, had been employed as a gardener at the SOS Hospital
for two years.
(http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/News-and-Media/News/GalleryImages/mogadishu-clinic-mother.jpg) The SOS Clinics in Mogadishu and in Afgoye offer
essential medical care mainly for mothers and children - Photo: SOS Archives
In April Dr Abdullahi and his staff opened the SOS satellite clinic in
Afgoye, where there are many internally displaced people. They began with mother
and child health care and an outpatients department, until Dr Abdullahi met the
woman who had to give up her baby as payment to her midwife for delivering
it. Realising her case was the tip of the iceberg, Dr. Abdullahi opened a
delivery room where women could deliver their babies and the babies could be
vaccinated, all free of charge.
The Afgoye clinic is run by a mobile team who spend 24 hours in the SOS
Hospital in Mogadishu and the next 24 hours in the field in Afgoye. In Afgoye
they see between 150 and 200 patients a day and on Saturdays they often have
300.
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