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Health screening conducted for people with albinism at the Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research Hospital in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu by the Turkish Agency for Cooperation and Coordination (TİKA).
A health screening was conducted for 35 people with albinism living in the Banaadir region and sunscreen, sunglasses and clothing were provided to protect them from the sun.
Albinism, a genetic disease in which there is too little or no pigment in the skin, eyes or hair, is considered bad luck in some parts of Africa due to superstition. Having a hard time participating in social life, people with albinism lag behind in finding work and taking advantage of the opportunity to study.
Türkiye’s Ambassador to Somalia, İbrahim Mete Yağlı; TİKA’s coordinator in Somalia, İlhami Turus; Director of the Public and Social Department of Mogadishu Municipality, Mohamed Hassan Mahamud, and Ömer Faruk Arslan, the counselor for religious services of Türkiye, attended the meeting with people with albinism.
In his speech, Yağlı, the Ambassador of Somalia, expressed his pleasure at TİKA’s support for people with albinism and stated that they will always be there for the kind and brotherly people of Somalia.
TİKA’s coordinator in Somalia, Turus, said that TİKA carries out projects from education to health, infrastructure to agriculture across the country and as part of the social responsibility projects support for disadvantaged groups has been implemented.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA).
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