Sanaag Specialty Hospital | Somaliland
For the past two years, the dōTERRA Healing Hands Foundation ® has been working tirelessly
to establish a hospital in Eastern Somaliland called the Sanaag Specialty Hospital.
Currently, the healthcare situation in Sanaag is dire without a single functioning regional
hospital to serve a population of approximately 500,000. The complete lack of infrastructure
and medical services has left local communities with some of the highest maternal and child
mortality rates in the world.
Scheduled to open in 2020, the Sanaag Specialty Hospital will have immediate impact in the
region. The facility will include 45 beds, an operating theatre for C-sections, and emergency
services, as well as diagnostics, pediatrics, and maternity departments.
Together with a network of remote health posts and outreach services, we will soon
begin providing critical, life-saving health services to some of Somaliland’s most remote,
underserved populations, including our cherished Frankincense harvesters.
The hospital will be staffed by 47 personnel, including four local providers and one
medical director with surgical expertise. Doctors Mona and Howa (pictured) were trained
at Somaliland’s top-ranked medical program and have expertise in maternal care and
C-sections. Along with the rest of our medical team, they will help save countless mothers
and infants over their careers.
“I have the utmost confidence in our team to
deliver high-quality care in the region and
look forward to seeing the impact the Sanaag
Specialty Hospital will have on reducing infant
and maternal mortality.”—Dr. Russell Osguthorpe,
CMO of dōTERRA ® International.
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Doctors Mona and Howa were trained at Somaliland’s
top-ranked medical program and now work at the
Sanaag Specialty Hospital.
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