Via Mareeg.com, a letter from Abdirahman Osobow Ali of the Somalia Social Workers Association: Somalia:cholera diseases due to poor sanitation of Somalia prisons. Excerpt:
The Somalia Social Workers Association (SOSWA) concerns over the amazing health conditions exist in across Somalia prisons with its sinister overtones.
This concern comes after when SOSWA acknowledged that the prisoners in Somalia central prison are in line with dramatic diarrhea and cholera diseases due to the scorching typical weather over the last two weeks in which caused death and urgent horrified tones from the chief of the central prison staff.
Habitually, Somalia is hot most of the times but the months of March and April are the most serious months of high temperature scale in the country. According to the deputy of chief of the central prison Mr. Hussein Hassan Osman, two prisoners died due to cholera disease while nearby 10 others are ill and suffering.
“During this season our focus is to monitor and evaluate health services to the jailed people and we have to make sure that prisoner’s people have access to health services as we know that there are thousands of prisoners in across Somalia prisons as we also know that it is crucial to visit them and follow up their cases”. Said Mr. Daud Abdi Daud of SOSWA
