Aamin Ambulance
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Aamin Ambulance
Aamin Ambulance is a 24 hour, free ambulance service in Mogadishu – the only one of its kind.[1][2]
Background
Aamin Ambulance was founded by a dentist called Dr Abdulkadir Abdirahman Adan, who returned to Somalia during the war in 2006 to find no health services. He was inspired by Abdul Sattar Edhi,[3] the founder of Edhi Ambulances in Pakistan.[4] Since then, the team has grown to 35 nurses, paramedics and drivers.[5]
Organisation and Funding
These volunteers operate a fleet of 10 ambulances in Mogadishu, which were brought second-hand from Dubai for the cost of around $5000 each. Two of these vehicles were donated by the World Health Organisation.[6] Other donations include walkie-talkies from the UNDP[7] and a first aid course from the ICRC in 2016, but most of the funding comes from Somali citizens – medical students and local businessmen – to support operations that cost around $12000 per month in fuel, salaries and supplies.[8]
Aamin respond to calls ranging from minor injuries and illnesses to terrorist attacks. On October 14, a truck bomb killed over 300 people in the Hodan district of Mogadishu. Aamin ambulances brought more than 250 injured to hospital.[9] Response to any call is made more difficult by the large numbers of road blocks in the city, and by soldiers who block their access[10] and sometimes fire at them – in 2008, an ambulance was destroyed, and the driver and patient killed, by an Ethiopian tank shell.[1]
The organisation is nonetheless well regarded by the Federal Government of Somalia. Dr Abdullah Hashi Ali, the Director General of Somalia’s Health Ministry, has given Aamin an honorary certificate. The government does not fund them, but supports them and encourages aid agencies to do so as well.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Houreld, Katharine; Sheikh, Abdi (6 April 2017). "As Somali bombings spike, an unlikely savior steps forward". Reuters. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
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