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Health minister calls for help in improving health services.

Somaliland Health minister, Osman Qassim Qodah, speaking an opening Ceremony of a new pediatric recently added to Hargeisa General Hospital said there are no nurses who graduated since the war broke out in the country in 1988.

The minister, said one the problems faced the Hospital was the lack of adequate skilled workers run the health service. He said that most of the health sectors were devastated during the war.

“If we construct new wards we need trained people to work in those wards,” Qassim said.

He  added that the Somaliland government was ready to improve the general health of its community.

Qodah, acknowledged HAVAYOCO, a  local NGO, funded the new pediatric wards, and called on the Somalilanders specially, affluent people, to help in reconstruction of the destroyed health sectors.

Nursing School training was not operating since the war broke between SNM forces and former dictator regime for led by General Siyad Barre. But the first 20 nurses will be graduated from Edna Adan Maternity Hospital  next  month.