Saxadoon

• Somalia is a country marked by conflict, poverty, chronic and repeated emergencies and some of the worst health indicators in the world.
• The constitution was adopted in 2012, and the federal government reinstalled. Since then, practically all the state-level institutions have had to be rebuilt, as well as institutions and authorities at member state level.
• Somalia’s health sector was destroyed by decades of civil war and was practically unregulated and informal.
• With that in mind, and even though the country is again facing severe drought, the Federal Ministry of Health has achieved a lot in terms of reconstructing some of the main functions of a national health system