NR No: 021/2022 Date: 9 July 2022

STORY: ATMIS Donates Medicines and Food items to Dhobley General

hospital

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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/SOMALI NATURAL SOUND

DATELINE: 7/JULY/2022, DHOBLEY, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot - ATMIS KDF soldiers arrive at Dhobley General Hospital.

2. Med shot - ATMIS KDF soldiers arrive at Dhobley General Hospital.
3. Med shot - Director of Dhobley General Hospital Mohamed Yusuf Hassan
welcomes the KDF soldiers
4. Med shot - ATMIS Deputy sector two commander, Colonel Joel Maiyo,
walking through Dhobley General Hospital.
5. Wide shot - Director of Dhobley Hospital, Mohamed Yusuf Hassan, welcomes
Colonel Joel Maiyo and KDF soldiers.
6. Wide shot - ATMIS KDF soldiers and Dhobley General Hospital staff walking.
7. Med shot - ATMIS KDF soldiers offloading donation from the army truck.
8. Close up shot - Boxes of donated items.
9. Wide shot - ATMIS KDF soldiers assembling the donated items.

For more information please contact:

Snr. Communications Officer or Force Spokesperson
Ms. Gifty Bingley or Lt. Col. Daniel Mugoro Muiruri, Email: au-amisomhom@africa-union.org
Cell phone: (Somalia) +252 617 682 175/+252 613 665 356; (Nairobi) +254 722 788 975
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 10. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) ATMIS DEPUTY SECTOR TWO COMMANDER,
COLONEL JOEL MAIYO.
"Today, we visited Dhobley district hospital to donate medicine and food to
support patients, children, women, and old people admitted to this hospital. Our
mandate as ATMIS is to support the Somali transitional plan, mend the medical
welfare of the population, and support the Somali security forces, which is why
we came here to assist the sick and enhance civil-military cooperation,"
11. Med shot - Director of Dhobley Hospital receiving donated items.
12. Med shot - Director of Dhobley Hospital receiving donated items.
13. Med shot - Director of Dhobley General Hospital, Mohamed Yusuf Hassan,
receiving donated items from ATMIS Deputy sector two commander colonel Joel
Maiyo.
14. SOUNDBITE: (SOMALIA) DIRECTOR OF DHOBLEY GENERAL
HOSPITAL MOHAMED HASAN
"We have received medical supplies and some food for the suffering
patients here in the hospital. We appreciate the timely donation; ATMIS has
always supported us in times of need. They help us deal with cases of serious
illness; sometimes, a patient can't be treated in our hospital, so we took him to
the hospital in the sector and got him treated. I believe that this donation will
help alleviate the situation,"
15. Med shot - Director of Dhobley general hospital Mohamed Hasan seeing off
ATMIS KDF soldiers.”

ATMIS Donates Medicines and Food items to Dhobley General hospital

Dhobley, 9th July 2022—Troops from the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) serving
under African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), have donated an
assortment of medical supplies and food items to Dhobley General Hospital.

ATMIS Deputy Sector Two Commander, Colonel Joel Maiyo, said the food donation
was to help with feeding of patients, especially children admitted with severe
malnutrition as a result of the ongoing drought. The medical supplies are to help the
hospital in meeting the medical needs of patients.

"We came to Dhobley General Hospital to donate medicine and food to support all
patients, especially children, women, and the elderly who are admitted to this
hospital. Our mandate as ATMIS is to support the Somali people, and this includes
supporting the Somali Security Forces in protecting and taking care of welfare of the

For more information please contact:

Snr. Communications Officer or Force Spokesperson
Ms. Gifty Bingley or Lt. Col. Daniel Mugoro Muiruri, Email: au-amisomhom@africa-union.org
Cell phone: (Somalia) +252 617 682 175/+252 613 665 356; (Nairobi) +254 722 788 975
Web: atmis-au.org | Follow Us: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube
population. This donation forms part of our civil-military cooperation (CIMIC)
activities," said Col. Maiyo.

Receiving the items, the Director of Dhobley Hospital, Mohamed Yusuf Hassan,
called for more support from ATMIS and Somalia’s international partners to help
alleviate the suffering of the vulnerable members of the community.

"We appreciate this timely donation, and it must be said that ATMIS has always
supported us in times of need. This donation will help alleviate some of the
challenges we face. On many occasions, ATMIS has helped us deal with serious
medical cases that cannot be treated in our hospitals due to lack of specialist care.
We have taken patients to the ATMIS hospital where they have been treated, and we
appreciate that very much," said the hospital director.

Beyond combat activities to degrade Al-Shabaab, ATMIS forces in Somalia

undertake Quick Impact Projects, which are small-scale projects that address the
basic needs of local populations. Some of the activities include drilling of boreholes,
refurbishing hospitals, building schools and markets to help improve the lives and
welfare of the local communities living under its areas of responsibility.

ENDS.

For more information please contact:

Snr. Communications Officer or Force Spokesperson
Ms. Gifty Bingley or Lt. Col. Daniel Mugoro Muiruri, Email: au-amisomhom@africa-union.org
Cell phone: (Somalia) +252 617 682 175/+252 613 665 356; (Nairobi) +254 722 788 975
Web: atmis-au.org | Follow Us: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube