Somalia between polio and humanitarian emergency
According
to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), a new
anti-polio campaign in Somalia will start in the capital, Mogadishu,
and will be launched in the whole country on September 28 (the sixth in
this year). Two new cases have been confirmed and 20 suspected are
under investigation. So immunization teams would move from house to
house vaccinating children under age five.
Somalia is polio free since 2002, but there is growing concern that outbreaks in near Ethiopia would spread.
Anyhow, situation seems under control.
Less controlled, on the other hand, seems humanitarian emergency.
Always according to Ocha, more than 100,000 people in in southwestern
Gedo district are in urgent need of assistance. The Ocha warning is
that about 1 million people in the whole country coul be in need of
help.
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matteo mohorovicich
