AWD Outbreak & Call for Action for Ethio-Somali Region
Project for UNOPS
The climate change in the southern Ethiopia of Somali region has caused a hard draught hit that affected the nomadic life style of the Somali people of Ethiopia. The drought doesn’t just cause hunger, it causes Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) as it makes people so desperate for water and they drink heavily contaminated water. Thousands of people were exposed to acute watery diarrhea and thousands have lost their lives.
As the Somali region of Ethiopia was stuck by a public health crisis in 2017, the international community called for a speedy response. UNOPS supports the regional health Bureau on AWD outbreak. The project started on late May 2017. UNOPS supports the RHB and UN agencies by providing transportation and dispatching supplies to zones and weredas. UNOPS provided 60 vehicles and 7 big trucks, to transport the supplies and human resource. It helped to transport health workers and the vehicles are being used as an ambulance. More over UNOPS pays per diem to the health workers through Mobile banking service as the regional health bureau was on budget constraints.
Health officers carrying out an AWD affected patient from a wheelchair to the hospital bed who was admitted in an emergency room for an immediate treatment at Karamara Hospital, Jigiga Ethiopia.
A health officer providing glucose and other strength development medicines for an AWD affected patient who was admitted in an emergency room for an immediate treatment at Karamara Hospital, Jigiga Ethiopia.
Local workers moving packed medicines provided by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, Food World Program and other organizations from WHO operated medicine storage warehouse to a vehicle inside Ethio-Jijiga Regional Health Bureau compound.
Local workers moving packed medicines and medical tools provided by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, Food World Program and other organizations from WHO operated medicine storage warehouse to a vehicle inside Ethio-Jijiga Regional Health Bureau compound.
UNOPS provided vehicle transporting the medicines and medical tools to the scheduled area of delivery to be used by local health post to for AWD affected patients in Ethio-Somali Region.
A health officer is delivering medicines that were provided by WHO to one of the victim mother in her follow-up day at the temporary built health post centre.
Ubah Amhed is bringing water to her home from nearby water pipeline for household uses by using donkey. Ubah Ahmed is the resident of the Bulalo Kebele. Her twin daughters and herself has been affected by AWD and survived with the medical treatment.
Ubah Amhed serving camel milk with tea for local customers in her small cafeteria for living. Ubah Ahmed is the resident of the Bulalo Kebele. Her twin daughters and herself has been affected by AWD and survived with the medical treatment.
Ubah Amhed is cooking meals to provide for her family. Ubah Ahmed is the resident of the Bulalo Kebele. Her twin daughters and herself has been affected by AWD and survived with the medical treatment.
Ubah’s daughters are drinking clean water after Ubah has used “Agar”, water-clearing chemical provided by the WASH program.
Ubah and her daughters are having lunch at the living room of their home. Ubah has been trained of a healthy and sustainable living and she is applying that for the family.
Ubah is helping her daughter washing her face as a morning ritual and making them healthy by keeping their hygiene at their home compound.
Ubah is washing up the dishes and other household items after they had their healthy meal and making them ready for the next use.
Ubah and her twin daughters pose for a portrait outside their home. Ubah is an example of the many surviving families that was affected by the AWD outbreak
