Somalia in Desperate Need of Blood Donors - Minister

Information Minister Abdirahman Omar Osman say the country does not have a blood bank and limitations in the health care system are impeding the medical response.

  • Somalia:   Calls for Blood Donations After Bombing

    Shabelle, 18 October 2017

    Somalia is in desperate need for donated blood to treat survivors of a truck bombing in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday that killed more than 300 people and injured at least 400,… Read more »

President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo donating blood at Mogadishu’s Erdogan Hospital on October 15, 2017 for the victims of the previous day's bomb explosion.

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