ERIGAVO GENERAL HOSPITAL REPORT

This photo shows female ward in Erigavo General Hospital.

Background

Sanaag is a remote eastern region of Somaliland, which bordered by approximately 380 kilometres of Red Sea coastline to the north and locates the border between Somaliland and eastern regions of Somalia. The region is divided into three districts: Erigavo, Badhan and Ceel AF weyne (El Afweyne), with the towns of Erigavo as the regional capital and Badhan and El Afweyne as the district capitals.

In terms of development, both the former central governments of Somalia and current Somaliland government and by International agencies and other NGOs, the region of Sanaag has been almost totally neglected. There are no surfaced roads in the region and services of almost any type are non-existent in the towns and the villages. Sanaag region lacks an adequate transport, communication and infrastructures, leading to a chronic lack of public services, particularly the important areas such as: health services education, agriculture and water supply.

Health Situation

· In health sector, health facilities are almost totally absent from villages to district capitals and there is a skeleton health service in the region capital.

· No basic medical facilities exists in the district hospitals and even the three district hospitals are virtually non-functional due to shortages of staff, supplies equipment, drugs, fuel and vehicles, and almost total lack of ongoing training, supervision, evaluation and maintenance equipment.

· There is acute shortage of surgical, orthopaedic, ophthalmic and gynaecology/obstetric equipment in all hospitals.

· Many health problems are evident in the region, the maternal mortality rate and incidence of TB are extremely high, and the infant mortality rate and incidence of vaccine preventable diseases, childhood communicable diseases, anaemia, malnutrition, respiratory tract infections, diarrhoeas and problems associated with pregnancy and childbirth are serious health problems.

Erigavo General Hospital

Erigavo General Hospital is one of the most neglected hospitals in Somaliland and it lacks all basic health service facilities and equipments. The Erigavo hospital is the main regional hospital/ referral centre and only hospital for the three districts of Sanaag region and surrounding areas. The hospital has the following wards:

1. Maternity ward
2. Children’s ward
3. Female ward
4. Male ward
5. Tuberculosis (TB) ward

Maternity ward

The Maternity ward is not functioning at all, due to lack of equipment,

Children’s ward

The children’s ward is also not functioning at all

Female and Male wards

The female and male wards are barely functioning with very limited equipment, they were both recently built but lack of equipment has rendered it useless.

Tuberculosis Ward

The Tuberculosis ward is fully functioning and it is the only department in the whole hospital that has a patient in it.

HospitalBuilding

This is Erigavo General Hospital

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