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As part of the Turkish mobilization for Somalia, Doctors Worldwide Turkey (DWWT) has launched a multifaceted operation including both short term projects to provide emergency relief assistance and rehabilitation projects to improve medical care. Amongst these projects, the construction of our Shifa Hospital has been the most challenging and we are very proud to be able to open it in due time. To achieve this goal, DWWT has closely collaborated with Medical Park. The opening ceremony of our Shifa hospital was held on March 6th in presence of Bekir Bozdağ, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister, Dr.

From January 9th to January 12th, Doctors worldwide Turkey sent a team of four specialized paediatric surgeons and urologists in order to implement a paediatric surgical camp within Sayyidah Fatimah hospital. This project is part of the wider operation “Life for Africa” initiated in July 2011 as a comprehensive approach dedicated to the Horn of Africa Crisis.

Sayyida Fatimah Hospital is located in Mlaleo-Kisauni, Mombasa in Kenya. It is currently run by Iqra Charitable Society which has its headquarters in Jeddah and is also registered in Kenya

In the first hours following the October 23 earthquake in the Van region of Turkey, Doctors Worldwide Turkey (DWWT) reacted immediately and deployed its Search and Rescue team composed of 31 volunteers who worked round the clock for 4 days.

Subsequent to the search and rescue phase we implemented an integrated medical support operation to meet the needs of the survivors. All our projects have been designed according to the Earthquake Crisis Centre’s plan of action to optimize efficiency and to coordinate actions with other organizations involved.

Nowshera's hospitals have been flooded and are unable to function since the floods started over a week ago. Further heavy rainfall is expected in the area today, hampering relief work.

"Doctors Worldwide has identified a building in Nowshera District that we are using as a hospital. The nearest hospital is 22km away and inaccessible due to the damage to roads and survivors

So far more than 500 people died and more than 2500 people injured most of them are civilians as a result of Israel's air and ground assault towards Gaza. Hospitals cannot cope the scale of injured people. Medical supplies are very scarce, there is no electricity and fuel make the job impossible. In some cases doctors operate

Niger 's poor health indicators can be linked directly to extreme poverty.

- There is a lot of scope of initiating programmes in the health sector.

- Maternal and Child health are areas of particular concern.

- Bureaucratic obstacles in setting up projects are limited.

- There are few local NGOs that would have the capacity to work with international partners in implementing programmes.

- A specialist Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Doctors Worldwide (DWW) has set up 4 emergency medical teams to send the area. . Transport is very difficult particularly after heavy rains in recent weeks. We are co-coordinating help with WHO, OCHA and local government. Following actions have been taken;

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