Somalia: Rights Groups Condemn Warning Letters Scattered in Medina Hospital in Mogadishu

Mogadishu — The Somali civil rights groups have held a press conference in Medina hospital in Mogadishu and unanimously condemned the warning letters scattered in and around the hospital recently, officials said on Monday.

The rights groups had visited at the hospital and its different parties where they had seen more seriously wounded civilians sleeping and told reporters that they were very sorry for the threatening letters threw in the hospital recently saying that it was intolerable action committed to people serving the population.

Sharifo Adow Alasow, one the civil society groups who visited at the hospital today said that it was some thing to be ashamed for frightening the people who are working health centers curing the Somali people.

She said that it would never be accepted pointing out that it was aimed to worry the innocent people who working for the wounded civilians day and night.

Asho Sha'ur Ugas, member of the civil organizations had also talked more in the press conference stressing that the hospital is cured by most of the vulnerable civilians saying that injured civilians in the hospital include two young children that one of them from Hiran region while the other one was seriously wounded in the latest fighting which continued in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

Sha'ur said that both the two young children are in the very critical condition at the moment saying that they could not get medical treatment in country calling for the all the population to support those children who are in dangerous situation.

It was recently when warning letters scattered in and around Medina hospital in south of the Somali capital Mogadishu which threatened to the medical staff and the charity organizations.

Medina hospital is only important hospital which most of Somalis are medicated and the statement of the civil society organizations officials comes the management of the Hospital said that the warning letters will never affect and halt their services for the Somali society.


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