The hospital, locally referred to as Isbitaalka Bariga Baardheere, is managed by a team of nurses in addition to one of the most experienced midwives in the Bardera district of the Gedo region.

UN agencies such as WHO, UNICEF and other international NGOs such MSF have supported the health-care services which are carried out in Bardera District.

Just as recently as 2007, Medicines Sans Frontier (MSF) of Spain, has tried to man, equip and re-supply the main Bardera Hospital which was out of service since 1994.

The majority of medicines, medical supplies, and information comes from friends of the hospital who live in the United States and Canada.

Well-trained medical staff who are working towards the same goal and safe medicine from Canada and United States is making East Bardera Hospital one of the best managed expanded MCHs in Somalia.

The founder of EBMCH retells a story of a woman who in early 2006 had received financial support from overseas family members and after a relatively normal pregnancy, gave birth and almost died from ensuing bleeding, receiving no immediate medical advice and no recovery help of any kind in Bardera.

The woman in the story, How EBMCH Started, could have purchased medical supplies such as supplements long before she got weak and could have also gotten nutritional advice, but there was no maternity hospital in Bardera at the time.

Correct nutritional information and basic prenatal services will go a long way for pregnant women in Bardera as food is mostly available in the largely farming town.

Expecting mothers and nursing women also get reliable supplements and medicines as well as medical advice throughout the pregnancy and after the child is born.

The previous year shows almost equal number of women being helped at their homes compared to those at EBMCH maternity ward.

Data compiled by the staff shows close to 3000 women being helped either at the EBMCH facility or in their own homes.

Lack of emergency response vehicles made half of those women who were given maternity services to give birth at home.

Factors contributing to service decrease included lack of transportation, patient financial difficulties due to drought and security issues.

Source: Dahir Abdi Dini, Field Office Assistant, 2009-December 2010 The west side of Bardera has a new maternity unit.

Present at the opening occasion of this unit, was the head of Bardera Council of Elders, Hussein Ali Bihi.

Newly established Bardera Poytechnic College is focusing among other things, training more medical staff for the local health centers.

And East Bardera Mothers and Children's Hospital is among the first to receive new supply of trained medical personal.

As the population of Bardera increases, and more services are needed, it is essential to have a place that trains additional staff.

Mohamed was a longtime English Language Instructor, who worked at various education centers in Bardera District.

These students will fill different fields such as public health sciences, nursing and junior pharmacy, and these future leaders will have two years of training, each.

From the beginning, it was evident that some of the illnesses pregnant women face in Bardera could have been prevented with safe supplements and with basic prenatal care.

Supplies and medicine at the East Bardera Maternity hospital were purchased according to the needs of women and children.

As there is no major hospital serving in this community of over 100,000 people, patients of all sorts, ordinary folks, walk-in patients with variety of illnesses and men and women of all ages come to the pharmacy of East Bardera Mothers and children's Hospital to fill out their prescriptions.

Before the establishment of EBMCH in 2006, any sick person in Bardera and surrounding areas would go to private pharmacies for treatment.

And most of the drugs available in Bardera were not reliable in most part due to lack safety enforcement and the unknown origins of these medicines.

East Bardera Hospital Pharmacy operates as a non-profit, hence, the need to obtain and give out unreliable drugs is out of the question.