Introduction

It’s been four months ago since we were assigned to conduct our duty in Sheikh Osman
village especially C3 section. The program was part of a bigger program conducted by
Amoud University and aimed at helping and treating poor people who otherwise would not
able to buy drugs or visit private hospitals. This city (Borama), as other Somali-speaking
cities, lives hundreds “if not” thousands of people whose income is under the poverty-line.
Somaliland’s cost of living is $1.5 (SL shillings 10500) and even though this seems to be
cheap, a substantial number of the population can’t get it. The general health of the
population always goes hand in hand with the economy, good governance, and how the
economy is rightly and equally distributed among the population. Since the government
has not enough money to cover the whole country, the price seems to be paid by the part
of the population who has not the income to cover their health needs. The health
promotion program conducted by University of Amoud also discovered what the
population can do if they decide it. Just the Amoud’s department of health science “tried”
to cover the health needs of these people, and 60% succeeded it.

The aim of the report

 Provide full information to the university

 Let the government know the condition of part of its population
 Provide stats to the NGOs or other donors if they need to help
 Let the coming students know how the situation is so that they can adapt is easily.
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 Health Issue

The health problems of C3 section are extreme. Generally there were 10 patients with

different diseases that we used to deal every Monday. More than 12 others prefer to get

drugs from pharmacies than us. But we are defining it “extreme” for two reasons. 1) There

are 52 houses in this sector with not less than 210 occupants. 22 sick people out of 210 is

truly mind blowing