Hospitals and health bodies
Madina Hospital (Medina Hospital), Mogadishu
Madina Hospital is a public hospital in Wadajir district, Mogadishu, opened on 25 May 1968. It is one of the city's two main hospitals and the ICRC calls it Somalia's de facto war hospital, taking most casualties from bombings and shootings in the capital. It can run four operations at once, the most in the country.
In short
Madina Hospital, also spelled Medina, is a public hospital in Wadajir district, Banadir (Mogadishu) (Wikipedia). It opened on 25 May 1968 and is listed with 400 beds (same source). It focuses on trauma and emergency care for mothers, treating several hundred wounded patients and pregnant women each month (same source).
Somalia's main trauma hospital
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls Madina "Somalia's de facto war hospital" (ICRC, 9 November 2021). It receives most of the people hurt by car bombs, shootings, grenades and suicide attacks in Mogadishu (same source).
It can run four operations at the same time, the highest surgical capacity in the country (same source). Its whiteboard of emergency cases is read in the city as a measure of insecurity (same source).
Wikipedia lists the injuries it treats as road accidents, falls, explosions, gunshot and knife wounds, and violence between people (Wikipedia).
The October 2017 bombing
The truck bombing of 14 October 2017 pushed the hospital far beyond its limit (ICRC, 2021). Staff treated about 50 to 80 patients who needed abdominal surgery, plus vascular operations and amputations. Treating everyone took three to four days (same source). See Mogadishu bombings, 2017 to 2022.
ICRC support
Madina is one of four hospitals the ICRC supports in Somalia (ICRC, 2021). The ICRC pays running costs: salaries, medical supplies, maintenance and electricity (same source). The other three are:
- Keysaney Hospital, Mogadishu
- Bay Regional Hospital, Baidoa
- Kismayo General Hospital, Lower Juba
In one period reported in 2021, the four hospitals treated 231 weapon-wounded patients, more than half of them at Madina (same source).
Leadership
Dr Mohamed Abdirahman Jama (Burtuqal) was appointed chief medical director in 2024 (Wikipedia). Dr Abdikadir Haji Maalim is named as one of its surgeons (ICRC, 2021).
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Sources
- Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- ICRC, 9 November 2021 · icrc.org
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