Press TV
Monday, February 13, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
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In the spirit of
celebrating the 33rd anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution, which
established a new political system based on Islamic values and democracy
the Iranian Red Crescent has vowed to extend more humanitarian aid to
the war and drought ravaged people of Somalia.
Iran has currently four permanent clinics in war torn Mogadishu located in four districts of the Transitional Federal manned areas namely Hodan, Howlwadag, Banadir and Digfer that attends to quite a good number of patients.
Last year’s famine claimed the lives of thousands and displaced millions others mainly farmers and pastoralists. A surge of refugees flocked the capital Mogadishu leading to spread of communicable diseases like cholera that claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent children.
However, the Iranian run health centers has been able to offer medical services to thousands. Most of the patients were women and children who have been the worst affected in the devastating famine in which the UN described as the worst to have ever befallen the Horn of African nation.
Common ailments left many Somalis desperate with most of the patients being inaccessible to the best drugs leading to a high number of deaths. However the Islamic Republic Red Crescent has brought renewed hope to the Somalis by offering them latest high quality drugs free of charge.
The local Banadir hospital, one of the few and still operational hospitals recorded a high number of patients and at the same time recorded the highest number of deaths of young innocent children below the ages of five.
The Iranian clinic has however equipped its clinics with advanced drugs that cures most of these prominent diseases affecting the displaced persons.
Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation has also embarked on educational projects in Somalia that will better the education capacity of the needy and orphaned children of Somalia future courtesy of new institutions that the Islamic Republic of Iran is opening in Mogadishu.
The Islamic Republic of Iran Red Crescent group is among the most active organizations present in Somalia who rushed in with aid to assist the victims of the 2011 Somalia famine.
The Iranian Red Crescent and Imam Khomeini Relief foundation have jointly issued food aid to thousands of famine affected persons in Somalia.