FIMA Year Book 2010-2011 - Federation of Islamic Medical ...
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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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