Somalia: SOS mother seriously injured and former SOS child killed in  
separate attacks 
 
     
01/09/2008 - At 10.00 am local time on Sunday, 31 August, fighting  broke out 
in the Medina area of Mogadishu where some of the SOS families  have been 
relocated.

 
     
(http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/News-and-Media/News/GalleryImages/mogadishu-mother.jpg)   The SOS mothers in Mogadishu are deeply  committed to 
the wellbeing of their children - Photo: A.  Gabriel 
Hearing the shooting SOS mother Fahamu hurried to get her children inside and 
 in the process was hit by a stray bullet in the chest. She was assisted by  
another co-worker, but due to the heavy fighting it was 15 minutes before they 
 could leave for the hospital. 

Once there, an SOS youth leader donated  blood and Fahamu underwent surgery 
on Sunday afternoon. She is now conscious and  on the road to recovery. The 
Medina Hospital is an ICRC hospital in the south of  Mogadishu. The SOS Hospital 
is in the north of the town and is often  inaccessible due to a large military 
presence in the area. 

The SOS  families were evacuated from the SOS Children's Village (which is 
just opposite  the SOS Hospital) last December, after the village was hit by 
mortar fire and an  SOS family assistant was killed. 

In a separate incident a former SOS  youth was shot dead last Thursday 
evening (28 August) in Afgoye, 22 km from  Mogadishu. He was visiting an SOS 
satellite clinic at the time when he was  approached by thieves who wanted to take 
his mobile phone. Resisting them, he  was shot in the neck and died at the SOS 
clinic shortly afterwards. Alas was 26  and, following his disengagement from 
the children's village, had been employed  as a gardener at the SOS Hospital 
for two years. 

 
(http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/News-and-Media/News/GalleryImages/mogadishu-clinic-mother.jpg)  The SOS Clinics in Mogadishu and in Afgoye  offer 
essential medical care mainly for mothers and children - Photo: SOS  Archives 
In April Dr Abdullahi and his staff opened the SOS satellite clinic in  
Afgoye, where there are many internally displaced people. They began with mother  
and child health care and an outpatients department, until Dr Abdullahi met the 
 woman who had to give up her baby as payment to her midwife for delivering 
it.  Realising her case was the tip of the iceberg, Dr. Abdullahi opened a 
delivery  room where women could deliver their babies and the babies could be 
vaccinated,  all free of charge. 

The Afgoye clinic is run by a mobile team who spend  24 hours in the SOS 
Hospital in Mogadishu and the next 24 hours in the field in  Afgoye. In Afgoye 
they see between 150 and 200 patients a day and on Saturdays  they often have 
300. 







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