Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Posted on Feb 21, 2013 in Hospital News | 13 comments A little story about how things get done. In Somaliland. And on the Internet. At Edna Hospital, we have been facing a problem of having too many newborn babies with breathing difficulties and those who are premature. As many as six infants occupy our our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at one time, but we have only one incubator, which is both unsafe for the babies and un-professional but we...
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Somaliland: An Epic 4000 Kms Journey on Foot for Edna Hospital

Posted on Jan 7, 2013 in Blog, Hospital News | 16 comments Here is an article from the Somalilandsun celebrating the arrival in Hargeisa of Christopher Stansfield, who walked from Cairo in support of Edna Hospital. • “Yes I have indeed reached my final destination. It’s been a gruelling four months and couldn’t have asked for a warmer welcome from Edna and everyone here at the hospital in Hargeisa. After seeing the hospital with my...
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An Epic Journey to Somaliland

Posted on Sep 8, 2012 in Blog, Hospital News, Somaliland | 4 comments Explorer Christopher Stanfield is embarking on his most profound adventure to date… Trekking over land and sea, across the vast barren desert of north east Africa, from Port Sudan down through the Red Sea to Djibouti, across the immense Djibouti terrain descending into the rugged mass of Somaliland, continuing on to his final destination Edna Adan’s Maternity hospital. This world...
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Vote Now – Help get Edna Hospital an Ambulance

Posted on Aug 24, 2012 in Hospital News | 10 comments Edna Hospital, as you may be aware, is badly – urgently! – in need of a new ambulance. The old one is so unreliable that it cannot be sent outside of Hargeisa. When a life-and-death emergency threatens the life of a mother and her newborn baby, the hospital needs to be able to provide transportation wherever it is needed. Somebody is giving away a Ford Ranger and Edna has her mind set...
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Ayaan to receive Facial Reconstruction Surgery in Australia

Posted on Jul 20, 2012 in Blog, Edna Adan | 13 comments Update March 26, 2013 Australia has refused to grant a visa to Ayaan to enter the country for medical treatment. We are utterly dismayed. Those of you who have been following Edna’s work for a long time will be aware of her efforts to find help for Ayaan who, as a small child, was shot in the face Somaliland’s war to regain its independence. A web site, HelpAyaan.org, was created,...
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Half the Sky Website Launches

Posted on May 12, 2012 in Hospital News | 0 comments The Half the Sky website is now live at www.halftheskymovement.org! Half the Sky’s Facebook page is at www.facebook.com/halftheskymovement As you may know, we are involved in a project called Half the Sky based on the book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Today the book becomes a movement as Half the Sky launches a new website to share stories of women and girls overcoming...
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Mothers Day 2012 Newsletter

Posted on May 5, 2012 in Hospital News | 0 comments Edna Adan Hospital was 10 years old on the 9th of March, 2012. During the past 10 years we delivered over 12,000 babies and treated over 14,000 patients. The achievement that we are most proud of is we have trained over 700 students, many of them in nursing and midwifery but also belonging to other disciplines such as laboratory technology and pharmacy technicians. Statistics $2000 is what we...
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Ask Edna

Posted on Mar 8, 2012 in Edna Adan, Somaliland | 0 comments United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) has published to her web site, Off The Sidelines, a page of Questions and Answers, questions from her Book Club members addressed to Edna Adan. The goal of Sen. Gillibrand’s group is to make more women aware of the need to be involved in the decisions that affect their lives every day and to let women know that their voice matters, to give them...
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A French Doctor’s Perspective

Posted on Jan 2, 2012 in Hospital News | 0 comments The following is written by a volunteer at the Hospital, Dr. Brigitte Herant Dunais. A link sent by my son – I have no idea how he came across the Edna hospital website – prompted me to apply as a volunteer for the month of October 2011, an experience I do not regret. This was an opportunity to discover Somaliland, its people, its history and its plight as it strives to obtain recognition...
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Friends of Edna 12th Anniversary

Posted on Dec 22, 2011 in Hospital News | 0 comments A special ‘Thank You’ to the Friends of the Edna Adan Hospital on the occasion of the 12th Anniversary of the formation of the Friends of the Edna Adan Hospital who have been our longest and strongest supporters, even before the hospital was opened in 2002. We all remember when in 2000, the hospital was still under construction and just a shell with no roof, no doors and no windows....
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Year End Newsletter 2011

Posted on Dec 17, 2011 in Edna Adan, Hospital News, Somaliland | 3 comments 2011 has been another year when once again, the Edna Adan Hospital was blessed with so many new developments as well as new friends. As our friends know, Edna started out as a Maternity hospital but in 2011 we’ve seen many new services and procedures that have changed the lives of people in Somaliland. Here are some of the examples of the 514 operations performed since January, 2011: 185...
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Letter from Appreciative Volunteer

Posted on Sep 17, 2011 in Edna Adan, Hospital News | 0 comments Edna is deeply grateful for the recent visit by a group of American surgeons. They made use of the Edna Hospital’s surgical facilities for one week to operate on 8-10 patients every day from 7am to around 10pm. Many were helped. As an added bonus, after they had departed, Edna found upon her desk the following hand-written note of appreciation from the daughter of one of the surgeons. (We...
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Visiting Medical Student’s Reflection

Posted on Sep 2, 2011 in Blog, Hospital News | 2 comments “Tell them the truth,” she instructed me. Those were the only guidelines Edna gave me when she encouraged me to write a post for her blog. The task sounded simple, but for many weeks after my return from Somaliland, I could not articulate all that I had experienced. Only now am I beginning to understand the reason behind my difficulty. The truth is that The Truth is much more...
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Celebrating Mothers Day

Posted on May 5, 2011 in Hospital News | 0 comments Our friend, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has, again, written about Edna Adan. This time, the occasion is Mother’s Day. Beyond Flowers for Mom “In a few days Americans will celebrate Mother’s Day with roses, chocolates and fine dinners, inducing warm and fuzzy feelings all around. But, in addition, I’ll bet helping mothers less fortunate...
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Year End Newsletter 2010

Posted on Dec 2, 2010 in Hospital News | 0 comments 2010 has been an exciting year for my country Somaliland as Presidential elections were held in June and a new President elected. We have also been very busy at the Edna Adan Hospital. While there have been many things to celebrate in 2010, there remain many challenges which we will continue to fight in the coming year. With your support we will remain dedicated to improving health for the people...
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Doing Something Positive with Grief

Posted on Oct 10, 2010 in Hospital News | 0 comments A small newspaper in Washington state, The Columbian, recently published an article about one of their local nurses, a recent widow, who was inspired by Nicholas Kristof’s book Half The Sky. Joanne Antonelli found comfort in her grief by volunteering for a month at the Edna Adan University Hospital. First she was numb. Then anger ripped through her. A bone-deep, ever-present anguish set...
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Thank You Vancouver!

Posted on Dec 22, 2009 in Hospital News | 0 comments We would like to thank the “Friends of Edna Hospital Society in Vancouver” for a generous donation of US$1800 they have sent to the Edna Adan Hospital as well as another amount of US$850 they have sent to the Las Anood Hospital through us with instructions that we buy medical supplies for that hospital. The money was brought to us by Mr. Rashid Ayanshe Ibrahim, who is the Chairman of...
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Ayaan Needs Facial Reconstruction

Posted on Jul 6, 2009 in Edna Adan | 2 comments Here is the transcript of the forthcoming video where Edna Adan appeals to the world to get help for a young woman whose face was destroyed when she was shot – shot in the face when she was only two years old! I would like to speak to you about the case of Ayaan Osman, a child who was shot in the face when she was two years old during the Somali Civil War that Somaliland had with Somalia...
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NY Times again blogs about Edna

Posted on Aug 27, 2008 in Hospital News, Job Opening | 0 comments Nicholas Kristof, the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist at the New York Times, writing in a new blog entry has again cited Edna Adan as being someone whom he “hugely” admires. “I’ve often recommended that young people go and live abroad for a time, the better to understand the world – and also the better to see their own country. Somaliland is a wonderful little...
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Show how Proud you are to Support Edna

Posted on Jul 3, 2008 in Hospital News | 0 comments The new Edna Adan shop is now open for business at Cafe Press! There are lots of different items to choose among. We hope you find something that you will enjoy. Only, please remember that the prices here all reflect our cost exactly. The Edna Hospital makes nothing when you purchase things here. But we do want you to have the opportunity to show the world how proud you are to be among the active...
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