Author name: Abdirahim Moalim

 GENERAL UPDATE In response to the drought and subsequent health crisis, the SWS ministry of health(MoH) and Deeg-Roor Medical Organization (DMO) had arranged an emergency six mobile clinics teams with the support from UNICEF/MoH. The vast  majority being women especially lactating women and single household women; children less than five (5) years of age and

Abdiweli Isack 6 years old boy from Ufurow town which is located approximately 94 km west from Baidoa, who suffered a spinal cord injury last six years with other complication has now arrived Baidoa-IDPs.  DMO outreach team has provided referral pathways to BRH as secondary care referral of a patient to a specialist at a hospital for a further assessment or treatment.

DMO has started August Screening and Distribution yesterday 8th August 2018, immediately after its team were back from IMAM Training. Thescreening and Distribution started at Horseed MCH and Holwadag. They were targeting under five years’ children and PLWs who are malnourished, we saw beneficiaries who had a lot of hopes for assistance since the work

Out patient therapeutic program is admits children under five years with severe acute malnutrition with complicated diseases like acute respiratory tract infection, xeropthalmia ;vitamin A deficiency, disease of gastroenteritis such as worms ,and skin  disease like eczema, and scabias  and eye disease like conjunctivitis  and  oral infection such as stomatits  and otits, there are two

Today 26th July 2018, One of DMO teams was working in Kormari for under 2 children who were in the BSFP program and were as well screening for new admissions. They screened more than three hundred under 2 children.   The other team was also working at Awalbarwaaqo, they were as well serving under 2

teams were screening and distributing Plumpy Doz in Alfurqaan and Idaale One FPD. The two teams screened more than 500 children under the age of two and were issuing them 1.5kg of Plumpy Doz which is 30 sachets to whoever meets their criteria. The 30 sachets planned to each child to be given one sachet

Today  23 july  2018 Horsed one of the dmo site were distributing and screening under two children and were issuing plump doz 2 to  prevent  malnutrition. More than 300 beneficiaries   were  screened and issued 1.5kg which is 30 sachets  of plump do 2 and also distributing drugs and cards and mosquito under five,  over five

BSFP is a short term intervention implemented in response to a current or anticipated food Crises   in a large population. A standard  divinition  of blanket supplementary feeding program not exist. A BSFP is defined as being food distribution that aims to increase  rapidly the food availability Of  families, and  reaches them usually through children under