RCA team performs 30 Gynaecology surgeries in Somalia

Hargeisa, Somalia - May 9, 2010 (WAM)- A medical team mobilised by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Red Crescent Authority to Somalia has performed, in collaboration with Oasis International organisationn (OIO), Gynaecology surgeries and procedures on 30 women in Somalia. The complex surgeries were performed to treat delivery injuries resulting from malpractices. One of the patients, Fatima Osman, said she travelled 1,800 kilometres from Mogadishu when she heard about the arrival of the medical team that provides free medical services to women. Member of the team Dr Isam Mustafa Al Sayed said most of the cases treated suffered from post natal symptoms, caused by delivery at the hands of unlicensed midwives. Dr Sinan Khadaj, Secretary General of the OIO quoted official statistics as reporting that 1,600 women out every 100,000 die from post natal complications.