Saturday, September 10, 2011
The organization pledged close to 350 million USD for Somalia and the deployment of medical and humanitarian teams in camps and in the local hospitals to assist the needy cases.
Abdirahman Bin Abdiaziz, OIC humanitarian wing adviser in a visit to Mogadishu said that the OIC wants to widen their scope and collaboration with the United Nations Agencies like the World Health Organization in assisting the people of Mogadishu.
One of the doctors from the who came with the OIC medical team delegation says that they will boost the health care system in Somalia adding . The doctors will be deployed in various hospitals like Banadir to treat some of the common and serious ailments.
Despite all this, cases of looting and deaths is still on the rise in Mogadishu with the most recent one being that of a government soldier opening fire at hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons in a camp who had turned out to benefit from food aid being distributed at Waberi, a district in Mogadishu killing six in unclear circumstances.
Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed declared a state of emergency in August in areas vacated by the group who are battling the Somali government and in the Internally Displaced camps.
Despite the massive aid flooding in Mogadishu, the most needy people do not get the much needed food aid with hundreds moving into the city centre to find a more descent and a better livelihood.