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A GROWING EXAMPLE<br />

means in the joint <strong>FIMA</strong>/IMANA/<strong>Islamic</strong><br />

Relief aid activity that have started at the<br />

Mogadishu Banadir Hospital. Right now, we<br />

are experiencing a boom in volunteer doctors<br />

in Turkey who are eager to go and serve in<br />

Somalia.<br />

• We have developed new projects and action<br />

plans to answer the needs <strong>of</strong> the Horn <strong>of</strong><br />

Africa, firstly on July <strong>2011</strong>. Among these,<br />

we are agreed to provide volunteer support to<br />

Benadir Hospital/Mogadishu in November<br />

<strong>2011</strong>.<br />

Since <strong>FIMA</strong> handed over its ‘Volunteer Support’<br />

project to DWW Turkey, we have been<br />

providing physicians to Benadir Hospital. In this<br />

period, from the 31th <strong>of</strong> October, <strong>2011</strong> we had<br />

sent 3 volunteer teams which consisted <strong>of</strong> 18<br />

physicians (Family Medicine, General<br />

Surgery, Pneumology, Pediatric Surgery,<br />

Ob/Gyn., Internal Medicine, Urology, ENT<br />

and Pediatrics), three pharmacists, five nurses<br />

and one intensive care nurse. And within these<br />

services our volunteers performed approximately<br />

3,000 patient examinations and 65 surgeries.<br />

And more than 10,000 boxes <strong>of</strong> medicine have<br />

been distributed.<br />

There is no state authority in Somalia.<br />

Accordingly, there are also some difficulties that<br />

we occasionally faced being caught in the<br />

middle <strong>of</strong> clans and different groups in<br />

Mogadishu. Because <strong>of</strong> this risk, we have taken<br />

our own safety and security measures as Doctors<br />

Worldwide. However, we believe that giving<br />

humanitarian and medical aid for suffering<br />

people in Somalia is an indispensable duty for us<br />

as a part <strong>of</strong> whole <strong>Islamic</strong> Ummah, and<br />

humanity at large.<br />

Meanwhile, our 60 bed capacity ‘Shifa Hospital’<br />

is still under construction. On 29th <strong>of</strong> November<br />

construction workers from Turkey have been<br />

sent to the field and hopefully DWW-Shifa<br />

Hospital will start to give services in February<br />

2012, InshaAllah.<br />

After Shifa’s opening we are planning to provide<br />

regular teams <strong>of</strong> volunteer physicians,<br />

pharmacists and dentists every month to support<br />

13 Somalian physicians who will work in Shifa<br />

Hospital as our employees.<br />

DWW Pediatrician caring for a malnurtished child<br />

They have already been provided an intensive<br />

training programme for 7 weeks in a University<br />

Hospital in Istanbul.<br />

Nevertheless while we have focused on giving<br />

health services, we did not forget our brothers<br />

and sisters in Somalia, and we distributed 5,050<br />

shares <strong>of</strong> Qurbanis during the Eid ul Adha.<br />

As DWW-Turkey, we did realize 558,000 US$<br />

<strong>of</strong> our project costs and we are seeking for more<br />

funds to increase our implementation capacity.<br />

Right now we are preparing Project Proposals<br />

and soon we would like to share our proposal to<br />

<strong>FIMA</strong> fraternity for future cooperation and<br />

support.<br />

Last but not least, we would like to share a piece<br />

<strong>of</strong> good news that honoured us, and will<br />

significantly facilitate our aid activities in<br />

Somalia. Our Turkish friend Dr. Kani Torun, the<br />

Ex-CEO <strong>of</strong> the DWW-UK and member <strong>of</strong> the<br />

executive board <strong>of</strong> DWW-UK and founders’<br />

committee <strong>of</strong> the DWW-Turkey at present, has<br />

been assigned as the first Ambassador <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Republic <strong>of</strong> Turkey to Somalia.<br />

We at the DWW are all proud and greatly<br />

empowered by the fact that a medical doctor has<br />

been assigned as ambassador to a country for the<br />

first time in the history <strong>of</strong> Turkey. Our brother<br />

Dr. Torun, who takes <strong>of</strong>fice in Mogadishu in<br />

mid November, will also be serving as a moral<br />

representative for the <strong>FIMA</strong>.<br />

<strong>FIMA</strong> <strong>Year</strong><strong>Book</strong> <strong>2010</strong>-<strong>2011</strong><br />

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