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Eritrea Profile 13 March 2021 Special Edition No. 76 Saturday, 13 March, 2021 Pages 4 CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT TRAINING Capacity development training Bilharzias, Elephantiasis, has been organized in Tio semi- Trachoma, and others, Mr. Daniel urban center to village health said that strong effort should be representatives in Araeta sub-zone, exerted to control their prevalence. Southern Red Sea region. Mr. Daniel also called on the Indicating that ensuring the village health representatives to health of the society is not only strengthen participation in the through the treatment provided at effort being exerted to control the health facilities but also with the prevalence of Elephantiasis that increased awareness of the public on has been detected in Araeta sub- health issues, Mr. Daniel Russom, zone since 2014. head of Integrated Response of Communicable Diseases, said that Noting that the information the objective of the training was to being provided by village health develop the capacity village health representatives with regards the representatives and extend their prevalence of communicable and contribution. non-communicable diseases in their INTERNATIONAl Women’s DAY COMMEMORATION area is significantly contributing Pointing out that there are 18 in curtailing their spread, Mr. The National Union of Eritrean national development drives. Women, Ms. Tekea Tesfamichael diseases worldwide including in Habteab Gebreab, administrator of Women branches in various cities conducted seminar in a virtual Eritrea that are the main causes the sub-zone called for reinforced of Australia enthusiastically The General Consul of Eritrea format to members of the union in death and disability including participation for better outcome. commemorated International in Australia, Mr. Mehari Tekeste, Australia and New Zealand. Women’s Day, 8 March, under the on his part stressed need to POPULAR ENVIRONMENTAL theme “Eritrean Woman: Pillar of strengthening organizational At the seminar, Ms. Tekea gave Resilience and Development”. capacity and transfer the noble briefing on the role of the Eritrean SANITATION ACTIVITY societal values to the young women in realizing the national The inhabitants of the The residents indicated that At the event held in Melbourne, generation. independence and safeguarding administrative areas of Atkaro the popular campaign is part of the Chairwoman of the union national sovereignty and and Sinaga, Tsorena sub-zone, the sustainable activity they have branch gave briefing on the According to report, the commended the participation and conducted popular environmental been conducting in accordance contribution of the Eritrean commemoration event was contribution of Eritrean women in sanitation campaign aimed at with the guidelines provided by women in various stages as well highlighted with artistic and Australia and New Zealand. controlling the prevalence of health practitioners. as the opportunities and challenges cultural performances. malaria that could occur with the encountered. She also called According to reports, nationals coming of the rainy season. They also expressed readiness for reinforced participation and In the same vein, the President in Sweden, South Africa and the to continue the program with a contribution in the success of the of the National Union of Eritrean Netherlands also commemorated The popular campaign included view to control the prevalence of the International Women’s Day clearing areas that are suspected malaria and other communicable with patriotic zeal. for breeding malaria mosquitoes. diseases. ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY UPGRADING CAPACITY MINISTRY OF HEALTH The Department of Surgery at the surgeries, cancer as well as deli- atrics will start in the near future. Orotta National Referral Hospital cate surgeries on infants. He also He further indicated that the Twenty-one patients have been diagnosed positive for is upgrading the scope and quality said that the department regularly Department of Surgery at the Oro- COVID-19 in tests carried out on 11 March at Quarantine of its services through investment conducts 1,500-2000 surgeries an- tta National Referral Hospital has Centers and OPD Services in Gash Barka and Central in equipment and human capital. nually. been providing emergency services Regions. respecting the guidelines issued to In an interview conducted with Dr. Yosief went on to say that the combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Out of these, thirteen patients are from Quarantine Centers Erina, Dr. Yosief Tewelde, head of Ministry of Health is giving due however, currently, it has resumed in Om-Hajer (5), Adibara (4), Agordat (2), Goluj (1), and Ali the Department of Surgery stated attention to human resources de- providing regular services and Ghidir (1), in the Gash Barka region. The other eight patients that the current service categories velopment and that post-graduate called on patients to respect the are from OPD Services in Asmara, Central Region. include neurosurgery, renal/urinary education on gynecology and pedi- guidelines and social distancing. On the other hand, fifty-four patients who have been receiving medical treatment in Gash Barka (53), and Anseba (1), Regions have recovered fully and have been discharged from these facilities. The total number of recovered patients to-date has accordingly risen to 2592 while the number of deaths stands at seven. The total number of confirmed cases in the country to-date has increased to 3009. Ministry of Health Asmara 11 March 2021 Eritrea Profile, Saturday, 13 March, 2021 No.76 2 By Bana Negusse ICG on Eritrea: Nuanced Analysis Short-changed for Entrenched Bias over 250,000 militias I will not dwell on the outrageous is ICG’s historical stance on Eritrea. and Special Forces (by and shifting allegations concocted The sad fact is the ICG has, in its embezzling and diverting every day by TPLF Trolls and their periodic reports and prognosis on Earlier this week, Mark Leon development funds). In the handful external enablers who have Eritrea in the past ten years, grossly Goldberg hosted a podcast entitled, past two years in particular, it unscrupulously resorted to a frantic misrepresented the country. The “The Civil War in Ethiopia, Sparked its launching of a massive attack stoked tensions and dangerously disinformation campaign to recoup litany of recurrent faults include: by a Conflict in the Tigray Region, on the Northern Command in ratcheted up violent, extremist, and in cyberspace what their fiendish distortion or omission of facts; is Getting Worse”. The podcast early November 2020. For an hateful speech, before launching war plan has failed to achieve on wanton disregard of the country’s features Will Davison, an analyst “expert” to somehow overlook its reckless attack on 3 November the ground. progress and achievements; and from the International Crisis Group this fundamental, basic fact, is 2020. Furthermore, the TPLF entrenched bias that is hard to (ICG). woefully unacceptable. It is indeed summarily dismissed all overtures It is worth noting, too, that explain and comprehend. In a gross disservice and insult to our for peace. the “expert” featured on the some of the highly flawed reports Regrettably, the program collective intelligence. program effectively spent years in the past, Eritrea has been was full of misinformation, As it downplayed the TPLF’s as a propagandist for the TPLF, portrayed as a “failed state on glaring contradictions, tenuous High-level TPLF officials instigation of the conflict in Tigray, downplaying its serious crimes the brink of disintegration” with presumptions as well as substantial themselves did not mince their the program also sought to rewrite and grave failures (including presumptive authors contemplating oversights. Ultimately, it lacked words when they acknowledged, the basic history about the 1998- widespread hunger and famine), the “timelines for collapse” and balance and failed to provide an with bravado, the massive attack 2000 border war between Eritrea trumpeting a mirage of “its leaps drawing up “transitional plans”. objective, accurate analysis or that they launched on the Northern and Ethiopia. Contrary to the in progress and growth”, and even Eritrea’s repeated efforts to seek discussion about the situation in the Command after months of narrative peddled in the podcast, coaching and directing its officials redress to malignant reports have Tigray Region in Ethiopia. meticulous and stealth preparations. the 1998-2000 war erupted due about PR. invariably fallen on deaf ears. A recent United Nations memo to TPLF’s unlawful schemes of While numerous problems can describes the sequence of events “territorial aggrandizement” by More recently, he was deported In the event, the recent programme, be dissected and unpacked, I will and concludes that this was “an act incorporating large swathes of by Ethiopian authorities, thus marked as it is with factual errors, focus here, for the sake of brevity, of war everywhere in the world, and sovereign Eritrean territories in the raising significant questions about untenable prepositions and lack on the most prominent ones. one that typically triggers military western part of the country as well conflicts of interest, credibility, and of any semblance of balance, is response in defense of any nation.” as incipient schemes of “regime grasp of a situation from which he nothing more than the latest episode First off, the program completely change” in Asmara. is thousands of miles away. This in a long series of utterly negative overlooks the role played by
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