Somalia: Mogadishu Port Authority hinders medical kits

The administration of Banadir hospital one of the biggest hospitals in Mogadishu, has condemned the authority of Mogadishu seaport for holding back equipments sent for the Hospital.

“We are condemning the authority of the seaport for allegedly hindering equipment which are sent to the hospital, and for prove we have the manifest which we have been sent to by an organization which helps the hospital in terms of drugs and other medical apparatus, and when we went to them they told us that the equipment they have here in the habour is to a certain company in Mogadishu, and they have instruction from the Prime Minister that the equipments should not be handed over to any other body a part from that specific company which they have not stated its name” said Doctor Abdirizak Hassan Ali the director of Banadir Mother and Child care Hospital speaking to Somaliweyn radio on Friday morning.

The Dr. has also added that he does not fully understand what has brought the hindrance to consignment which is brought to the Hospital, when of course there are hundreds of Mothers and Children are ailing from different diseases in the hospital.

In is speech the Dr. has asked the Somali government bodies to swiftly intervene the issue, or else there will no confidence between the government, and the Somali population whom we are working for.

Mohammed Omar Hussein