A hospital to save the lives of hundreds of newborns

Specchio dei tempi and Somaliland have a strong connection. In 2011, a group of doctors and professionals from Turin, who had known Mohamed Aden Sheik, a Somali physician and the first black city councilor in Turin, during his lifetime, convened a press conference to denounce the precarious state of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, which is suffering from a very severe drought. In those very days Mirror of the Times had launched a famine subscription in the Horn of Africa. The journalist present at that press conference, who is then who signs this article, returned to the newsroom with that idea in his head. He told Marco Marello, then secretary general of Mirror of the Times, about it, and the next day La Stampa headlined “We will do the children's hospital in Hargeisa.” An association the MAS CTH was created, which collected the donation from Mirror and a few other minor donations and went straight into planning. Less than a year later the construction site was up and running and in 2013 the hospital could open its doors, with 50 beds.

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That hospital is still there and continues to be in the heart of Specchio dei tempi. After running it, with some external contributions, for the first three years, the hospital was handed over to the Somaliland Ministry of Health, which, however, encountered its first difficulties after a few months. Specchio has thus returned to Hargeisa since 2018 with a teaching program toward doctors and nurses. Then, in July 2022, the current three-year program started, implemented on the ground by MedAcross of Turin, which provides medical relief in the refugee camps around Hargeisa, modernization of the Neonatology and support to the emergency room (50 passes per day) with salary payments to doctors and nurses.

The project, which will end with this form in July 2025, will then be continued with the involvement of other departments and special attention to surgery. MedAcross, which handles all the logistics, is chaired by Daniele Regge, former chief of radiology at Candiolo, and has Gabriella Buono, chief of cardiology at the Mauriziano, as vice president.
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