U.N. Issues Alert Over Deteriorating Health Situation In Somalia
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued an alert on Thursday "seeking donor help" to address the health situation in southern and central Somalia, "which has continued to deteriorate due to latest fighting in [the capital of] Mogadishu," Xinhua reports. In the alert, OCHA said civil strife has had a "debilitating effect" on the social services infrastructure - particularly health services - in the country, Xinhua writes. "With the country already facing one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world, the humanitarian health community is finding itself constrained by the health funding deficit, leaving a number of critical life-saving health projects uninitiated and ongoing ones under threat of cessation," OCHA said.
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