GENEVA, 24 July 2015 (UN News Service): Somalia – a country where every two hours a mother dies due to pregnancy (graviditets) complications – is facing cuts in life-saving health services because of the lowest funding levels in seven years, according to the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO).
“We cannot afford to let the country slide back into a humanitarian crisis,” WHO Representative for Somalia Dr. Ghulam Popal said, adding: “Otherwise, we would undermine all gains made until today.”
UN health partners in Somalia are expressing concern that they will face difficulties in continuing to provide life-saving health services at the scale required as a result of declining humanitarian funding for 2015 and the forecast for 2016, WHO warned Thursday.
The lack of funding for UN’s humanitarian response plan in 2015 has left more than 1.5 million people cut off from primary or secondary health care services, according to WHO.
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As of July 2015, out of a required 71.5 million US dollar, only 6.1 million (8.5 per cent) has been received, the lowest since 2008, despite ongoing early warnings and appeals for adequate funding.
According to WHO, there are currently 3.2 million people in need of humanitarian aid in Somalia, where
- every 2 hours a mother dies due to pregnancy complications,
- every hour, 8 Somali children below the age of 5 die;
- one in 4 children suffers from chronic malnourishment; and
- only 1 in 3 Somalis have access to safe water.
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