News from Ethiopia, Somali Region
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Maternal Health in Wardher
Wardher is a town of approximately 15,000 people situated in a remote part of Ethiopia close to the Somalia border. An ongoing armed conflict continues to destabilize the area creating…
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Handling Complicated Births in Remote Wardher, Ethiopia – A Midwife’s Story
One night, I was woken up by a call from the clinic. A woman had gone into labour and was experiencing complications. The birth had come to a standstill and in the time that it took me to reach the delivery room, nothing had changed.
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‘Our Health Clinic is the Closest Place to Go’ – MSF in Imey
Separated by a river, which means staff have to transfer patients between centres on a little boat, the two health clinics provide regular outpatient consultations to more than 2000 patients per month. Services include ante and post natal care consultations for pregnant mothers, and those who have recently delivered.
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Breathing Life into Maternal Healthcare in the Somali Region, Ethiopia
An account by MSF midwife Mali Ebrahami “The moment I saved the first child’s life in Wardher will always stay with me”… recounts Mali Ebrahami, an MSF midwife recently returned…
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Improving care for TB patients, Wardher, Somali region, Ethiopia
A Story for World TB Day… “Besides all the coughing I had a lot of pain on the right side of my ribs and I could not sleep in the…
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