PHOTOS: Beletweyne hospital in ruins as families struggle to find help for the injured

GOOBJOOG NEWS|BELETWEYNE: The second of the twin deadly bombings that hit Beletweyne on March 23 targeted medical evacuation teams and went off at the entrance of the only public hospital in Hiiraan region causing most of the 48 deaths and reducing the hospital into a shell.

Pictures from the hospital now the facility constructed in 1933 in ruins and closed with no reconstruction and removal of debris yet to commence. Hiiraan regional health coordinator Ahmed Khalif told Goobjoog News the hospital buildings and facilities are all destroyed adding that three hospital staff were injured during the attack.

According to Khalif, all the departments-from wards, theatre, maternity to the pharmacy were all destroyed by the huge bomb that went off late afternoon on March 23.

The first suicide bomb started at the regional presidential palace where firebrand female MP Amina Mohamed was killed. Shortly thereafter, a minivan loaded with explosives went burst in front of the hospital.

Khalif said the situation is even worse for the 108 people who were injured. The government has not helped in finding specialist treatment for the affected leaving families to struggle on their own, the medical official said.

He added that two victims of the attack are in critical condition but there was no help yet.

Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack which happened few hours apart from another attack at Halane base camp in Mogadishu which killed six people.