Poor Health care system in Somalia

Over the last 10 years health care system had been rapidly undergoing challenges and barriers alongside with rising of new diseases which their cure medication has not been discovered yet. Moreover, health care system has failed to provide services and improving quality of health facilities under the inefficient provision of government, and lack of financially support due to poor economy of the country.

The private health sectors are gradually growing in the absence of an effective public sectors uplift which results high costing to the people to afford health care.

This trend was encouraged by declining, external finances, lack of resources or commitment by administrations to support a public health service Even though the country started improving in terms of infrastructure, However health care system remained under developed, poorly resourced and lack of motivation and vision,

One of the main challenges are maternal issues where women face major failure of maternal service, child birth facilities, hospitals and lack of emergency obstetric referral care for birth complication which further results loss of blood post-delivery or easy get infectious both mother and the baby.

The second major challenges are poor facilities of dialysis clinic. Majority people here in Somalia are suffering from chronic diseases like Kidney failure .it refers when kidneys stop working well enough to filter blood before send back it to the heart or pass well the urine to the bladder.

One of the main causes of Kidney failure is diabetes and there is less awareness about the correlation between these two diseases. Moreover, the treatment comes with full package include: medication, excising plus changing diet. When the sugar level of the body is constantly high, it causes malfunction of the kidneys, softness of the bones, and blindness. If there are no regular check ups it will be difficult for the individual to track sugar balance constantly

Adding up all this causes, will result kidney failure, which brings to my point of no proper clinic dialysis . Most of the people don’t benefit from dialysis facilities here in Somalia because of poor quality, and it’s very sad to see people dying from diseases that are manageable to live longer or don’t have say goodbye too soon.

My goal as a citizen to highlight and bring awareness of those kind of major issues like rising kidney failure or poor maternal for women and overall lack of proper health care system that people can rely .

By: Halimo Omar