There are 55 beds in the hospital, and a laboratory. Supplied and renovated by the ICRC, it runs on a cost-sharing basis. In the aftermath of the civil war, the health system, like everything else, collapsed. In response to the collapse, private health facilities mushroomed. There are currently 62 such facilities in Mogadishu, with new ones appearing every day, said Dr Gure of the UN clinic.
Clinics offer health services ranging from normal checkups to major surgery.
There are no controls in place to regulate these facilities. Personnel operating the clinics did what they liked whether their staff were qualified or not, said the doctor. Prior to the civil war, there were strict regulations and codes of practice for medicine, and all personnel had be certified and licensed by a board within the Ministry of Health. Dealing in drugs Pharmacies are another area of the health sector that have proliferated since the outbreak of the civil war. The problem is the same all over Somalia, but especially so in Mogadishu.