Fardosa Hussein

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A day at a COVID -19 treatment centre in Somalia

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One of the nurses helps quenche...Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

One of the nurses helps quencher the thirst of an elderly woman admitted at the isolation ward in De Martini Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Dr. Hamdi and Nurse Liban revie...Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Dr. Hamdi and Nurse Liban review files of patients in the isolation ward in De Martini Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

A portrait of Dr. Hamdi Abdirah...Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

A portrait of Dr. Hamdi Abdirahman (Far left), Nurse Liban Adan (center) and Dr. Hafsa Mohamed (Far right) at the isolation ward in De Martini Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Nurse Liban Adan checks the tem...Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Nurse Liban Adan checks the temperature of an elderly woman admitted in the isolation ward where suspected cases are monitored at the suspected ward at De Martini Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

A nurse at the treatment ward c...Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

A nurse at the treatment ward checks on patients with Covid 19 at the De Martini Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

An elderly man at the treatment...hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

An elderly man at the treatment ward recovering from Covid 19 at the De Martini hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

A nurse stands next to a deck f...Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

A nurse stands next to a deck full of medical equipments in the treatment ward at De Martini Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Nurses work from the counter wh... Hospital in Mogdishu, Somalia.

Nurses work from the counter where they monitor the patients at the treatment ward in De Martini Hospital in Mogdishu, Somalia.

A nurse serves lunch to a patie...n Mogadishu, Somalia.

A nurse serves lunch to a patient at the treatment ward in De Martini Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

A nurse checks the blood pressu...i hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia.

A nurse checks the blood pressure of a patient at De Martini hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia.

A nurse rests in one of the bed..., Mogadishu, Somalia.

A nurse rests in one of the beds on the corridors at De Martini hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia.

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A day at a COVID -19 treatment centre in Somalia

Copyright Fardosa Hussein 2024

Updated Apr 2021

Location Mogadishu, Somalia

Topics Africa, Covid 19, Documentary, Health, Healthworkers, Mogadishu, Photography, Somalia

As the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelms countries with strong health care systems, Somalia – already reeling from the cumulative effects of multiple recent shocks – is preparing for the worst. The country has experienced conflict, drought, floods, a locust invasion, all in the last nine months. I spent a day at the only COVID -19 treatment centre, De Martini in Mogadishu, Somalia at the peak of the pandemic in 2020. This health workers don't have enough PPEs and other resources like oxygen machine to save the lives of the many admitted to the hospital.

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