Abstract
Four family physicians, who received their specialty training at Amoud University in Somaliland, organised a practice together that uses informal public–private partnerships to optimise their clinical care and teaching. Their experience offers insights into public–private partnerships that could strengthen the country’s healthcare system.
Highlights
Civil war broke out in Somalia in 1988
Whilst the rest of the world does not recognise it as an independent country, Somaliland has developed relative peace and stability in contrast to the rest of Somalia
Later the university increased their teaching responsibilities by appointing them as either full or adjunct faculty members of the family medicine training programme, which uses the regional hospital as its main teaching hospital
Summary
Civil war broke out in Somalia in 1988. By 1991, the clans in the northwest of the country declared independence and formed a new country, Somaliland. During their three years of training family medicine registrars become competent to accomplish two main tasks: firstly, to provide comprehensive, holistic care at the level of the primary hospital, and secondly, to work alongside teams in the hospital’s catchment area to provide primary health care. In the Borama District public sector there are 13 health centres, one functional primary hospital and one 377-bed regional hospital.
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