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COVID-19 isolation area for pregnant and lactating women established in Puntland - Somalia

COVID-19 isolation area for pregnant and lactating women established in Puntland Format Mariam Muhammad (not real name), 23, from Garowe, Puntland was eight-months pregnant when she started feeling severe flu-like symptoms at the beginning of November 2020. Her situation worsened three days later when she started having a fever. Her husband rushed her to Garowe General Hospital. “I was taken into an isolation centre for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. The doctors carried tests on me including a test for COVID-19, and I tested positive for the coronavirus,” says Mariam. She was immediately put on special treatment under close monitoring by health experts at the hospital.

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