Somalia has today received second shipment of medical supplies from Turkey amid Coronavirus spreads in different parts of the country.
According to Turkish foreign ministry, an A-400M military plane carrying supplies including stretchers, beds and quilt covers departed from Etimesgut Military Airport in the capital Ankara.
“We delivered medical aid supplies to Somalia upon the directives of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the aim of combating the COVID-19 outbreak. A Turkish Armed Forces aircraft which took off last night has landed in Mogadishu,” the Defense Ministry said on Twitter.
On Saturday, Turkey sent a shipment of medical supplies to Somalia, including new Turkish-made ventilators.
After Turkey’s all-out efforts to develop its own ventilators, which bore fruit last month, Somalia – which lacked the devices, which are critical for fighting the coronavirus – became the first country it sent the ventilators to.
The aid packages bear the Turkish presidential seal along with the Turkish and Somali flags and a famous saying by 13th-century poet and mystic Mevlana Rumi: “There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.”
According to data compiled by the Somali ministry of health, there are 722 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 32 deaths in Somalia.
