{"id":448527,"date":"2025-09-12T10:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=448527"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:25:20","slug":"mogadishu-opens-24-hour-blood-bank-to-address-urgent-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/mogadishu-opens-24-hour-blood-bank-to-address-urgent-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogadishu Opens 24-Hour Blood Bank to Address Urgent Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>MOGADISHU<\/b> \u2013 Somalia&#8217;s Minister of Health, Dr. Ali Hajji, has announced a major initiative to address the critical need for blood in the community with the opening of a new 24-hour blood bank in Mogadishu. The new facility aims to provide a reliable and accessible source of blood for those in need, a service that was previously difficult to obtain.<\/p>\n<p>During a public address, Minister Hajji highlighted the urgent demand for blood in the Somali community, stating that it is a resource that cannot be sourced through conventional means like social media. He explained that the new blood bank is a significant and important response to this need.<\/p>\n<p>A key feature of the new blood bank is that it will provide blood to patients free of charge, a change from previous practices where there may have been an associated cost. The minister concluded by reiterating the critical need for blood and the importance of this new, accessible service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU \u2013 Somalia&#8217;s Minister of Health, Dr. Ali Hajji, has announced a major initiative to address the critical need for blood in the community with the opening of a new 24-hour blood bank in Mogadishu. The new facility aims to provide a reliable and accessible source of blood for those in need, a service that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":448528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-448527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448529,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448527\/revisions\/448529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}