The Gravedigger's Truth: Coronavirus hits Somalia - BBC Africa Eye documentary
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2020
- In Somalia, two young doctors are in the fight of their lives. As the coronavirus begins to claim its first victims, they volunteer in the capital’s only designated Covid-19 ward.
Despite their bravery, people are dying because the hospital lacks vital medical equipment. Officially, fewer than 100 Somalis have been killed by Covid-19. But BBC Africa Eye goes to one of the city’s main cemeteries, where the gravediggers tell a different story.
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I have a dream 1 day Somalia will be peace & the most beautiful country in the world 😍inshaAllah
Inshallah
It will never happen saaxib
Asc walalaha somaliyed Arim ba iheysata Alle dartii $30 ya Igu cawin kara🙏❤🇸🇴f
Me too, i really hate to see kids had nothing to eat and suffer...those who lost their lives for nothing, the officals eat well sleep well, see their people dying and no doing anything about it
Where there is no God there is no peace. That statement is pregnant. 🤷♀️
Wonderful report, i especially love seeing young somali men and women fighting the virus. May Allah bless that single mother.
Single mather
I am Ethiopian but it saddens me when I see any bad news about any Countries in Africa.....and Somalian are our neighbors 🙏🙏🙏
Fake news
Axmaar
Brother, there's a hidden agenda behind this team. Why can't we find a BBC Europe Eye, BBC Asia Eye, and the like? Why Africa only?? They want really to defame the beautiful content. The information they are telling about Somalia is fake. Nothing of what they are talking about Somalia is true. I live in Somalia. I haven't ever seen a person who suffering from coronovirus or died of it!!
thanks mr good heart true african
@liibaax T probably bun not certainly
Somali local people dont think its serious and just dont listen, their just used to death. My dad had Coronavirus but Alhamdullilah survived and is well in Mogadishu . Oh Allah save us all from this pandemic .
how do you know it was god that saved him?
How about we educate ourselves and leave this qabiil shit behind and build our country and start depending ourselves inteligent people dont sit around and pray but do something
Don't trust the white mans medicine
Every Dr that stays and fights this virus are truly amazing. As Dr’s you take an oath to do your best to help human kind. Only the most dedicated Dr’s uphold that oath. Thank you for all you have sacrificed.
God Bless those doctors 💖
Praying for somalia 🇸🇴 and rest of the globe .
My Allah save my people, my country and at large African pple Ameen
#thankshealthheroes are 🇸🇴
If you read the comments you will see that people are saying this is fake news to get more medical help for other reasons
@@beckyentrekin8043 93 People Died in Somalia
And 300,000 Died in United States of America
Praying for Somalia and indeed the entire Africa
No pray for somalia
@@shiftyguggs2415 why
Jama Osman made an excellent documentary on COVID19 in Somalia. He is probably one of the best documentary makers there is!
Prayers to somalia n the world. My heart is 💔
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This disease serious people shouldn’t ignore at all
Praying for Somali
Thank you so much
My 21 year old and my 9 month old granddaughter had it, thank God they only suffered with runny nose and my daughter still has a loss of taste and smell but it's slowly coming back
Thank you for this report and God bless those doctors and hospital staff saving lives
The people that live there are saying this is fake news
Becky Entrekin free will and free choice, I personally was so grateful to witness sacrifices made by the medical team.
@@beckyentrekin8043 If it's "fake news", where is the proof of that?
everything happens with ALLAH'S will. but to take preventative actions is our duty..lets all mask up and maintain social distance
Thank you BBC for another great report!
Something as simple as NAC(N-acetylcysteine) would help the patients with breathing issues. It's amazing for people with COPD, asthma and the like.
i pray for my neighbor Somalia
The truth can never be hidden .. this is real. Those of you who blaming jamal you are wrong
Alhamdulillah they have gone through it now everything is good now
No it came back
This report is totally misleading.. you cant use grave yards as evidence
Take time to listen to what the people say, the conclusion is clear that no one knows how many, and many died home with no clear clear known of death
True. This report is baseless.
Brother, there's a hidden agenda behind this team. Why can't we find a BBC Europe Eye, BBC Asia Eye, and the like? Why Africa only?? They want really to defame the beautiful content. The information they are telling about Somalia is fake. Nothing of what they are talking about Somalia is true. I live in Somalia. I haven't ever seen a person who suffering from coronovirus or died of it!!
@@abdallaMoa Brother my dad had Coronavirus and he lives in Al Baraka , Degmada Hodan in Mogadishu but now Alhamdullilah he is fine , that is because people are hiding it so you wouldn't know, Just be careful akhi.
Almost a thousand years ago, when Europe was ravaged by the plague, we now know today just how devastating it was in part because of ancient graveyards. Saying that graveyards can't be used as evidence is ignorant and false.
Well done journalist #jamal
its wonderful documentary.
Sad , that African countries have to suffer being caught in a war not of their doing.
Fake news for little price
The Somali civil war is the fault of the Somalis. We need to stop putting blame elsewhere.
May the Good Lord protect and watch over us
One thing that you did not mention is people had difficulties in obtaining ambulance to take them to designated hospital in Mogadishu. When patient springs up the symptoms, local tuk tuks fear of transporting covid patients to avoid transmission, hence this may have contributed the undocumented covid-19 deaths in Mogadishu.
Good comment, that was a valid point. Also, thank you for telling us.
May Allah bless the doctors on the frontline figting this pandemic.
Masha.Allah well.prepared documentary and we.have seen.many stories.thay we don't knew before.its true we.have to.protect this together
We pray for all the front line workers. May God protect and keep them safe. They are real heroes.
Calankaada waa hibo😪♥️
Am proud one day Somalia will be Peace
Incha allah 🇸🇴🇸🇴❤
At one point i feel depressed and sad for those who lost their dear lives including my aunt and on the other point i feel happy and cherished for Drs hilwa and dr. Abdilatif and their colleagues for the work they're doing.. it's so great and irreplaceable✌ Kudos to them... as for me, to help my people and serve them Is the reason i chose to go to medical school and hopefully I'll make it happen inshallah🙏🙏🙏
If we are Somali we are Muslims and Allah protect us every disaster🤲
Not all Somalis are Muslim 😭
@@safuu202 all of them are bone like Muslim,bt they grow up and change there religion
@@abdull_ke3995 we lose the faith...we dont change our religion🙄
What about the 35yr political disaster of Somali civil war and division?
Even without covid Somalia is hell on earth
Praying for Somalia and the rest of the world.may God bless these doctors.
If you look at some of the comments they're saying that it's fake news is over exaggerated!! They take the malaria medication their covid 19is probably not what they're saying
Waxbadan baa'ka run ah documentry lkn video meelaha laga sooqabtay waa meelaha ugu xun magalada jidad dhiiqa ah meelo jajaban tusaale minutes-ga 21.30 xeebta liido oo leh veiws iyo dhismooyin qurxoon buu cooshada iyo buushas clip ah ka sooqaatay.... london waalaga helayaa meelo dhiiqo iyo guryo gaboobey kuyaalaan
This can't be compared with the situation in Italy, Spain or USA. Just because it's African country then you keep amplifying this.
Amplifying? They're just reporting it because the government aren't giving out the true numbers. How are we gonna stop it, if we don't know how big it is?
I can't believe you're upset of the journalist instead of the government.
@@bjoardar the people on the ground doesn't need bbc etc, How do you justify being told of what's happening in your home from international media House as if you are blind n deaf?
@@chirchirzephania5405 Between the Somalian government and the BBC, who do you think is more likely to tell the truth?
I know that *personally,* if my government is trying to downplay, or even keep information from me about the spread of a deadly virus *where I live,* I would be *THANKFUL* if it got exposed, and I couldn't care less if it was foreign media or not who exposed it. I'm not narrow minded like that.
Having said that, I do hope you and your loved ones are safe from harm. Take care.
@@bjoardar I trust African media House in delivering African news. All foreign media aims at painting a very bad image about Africa. I'm safe from the virus, thanks for the concern. Stay safe too
"Amplifying"? Bet if even ONE of your family members were to succumb to this illness, you'd want every medía house to shout it from the rooftops on your behalf. Even ONE life lost is worth being "amplified"!
I am wondering what this documentary is trying to convey. he reported that people were dying either way if you take them to the hospital or if they stayed at home. so is he blaming somali people for not taking the covid19 seriously or government, because people are dying because of covid 19 all over the world. what is special about covid 19 in somalia. ?!
@Paul Hoye I am a recovered Covid-19 patient from Nigeria. Corona virus is not a lie. It's not a death sentence but, if not aggressively handled early it's a sure death sentence. May I add, treating full blown Covid-19 is not cheap at all. It's better to prevent it than to cure it.
We Africans have gone into "fake news" syndrome too I see... all thanks to Donald Trump... Calling a piece of news "fake" does not make it so as Donald trump is about to find out.
Bro, take preventive measures, wear a cloth mask, wash your hands frequently and maintain social distance... It's for your own good.
@Paul Hoye wow so why are people getting sick? I'll watch what you have posted though
@Paul Hoye Do I know you from somewhere? You did not read my post, I'll bet.
How much I am paid to troll? How preposterous!
Did you read the comments someone wrote asserting that one of the patients that died was his father? The doctor said he had covid, we saw his thoracic x-ray then he died and you think the son and the doctor are in a conspiracy to confuse the public. I go ogled the person that claimed its his father and I can testify to the fact that it's true they are father and son.
I am an almost sixty year old Nigerian... I testified that my wife, four children and I tested positive for Covid-19, we were quarantined, treated and we all recovered... As evidence that the Corona virus is real and Covid-19 is real too.
I made the comments because someone said the video documentary we watched is fake.
You come on here to pour out invectives and suggested that I am paid to write what I wrote?
It's fine, keep living in cookoo land with your conspiracy theories... Don't protect yourself and your loved ones... Unfortunately we will never know if anything up close and personal happened to you.
Have a good day...
@@jorgeo1401 People like Paul Hoye here only believes what they *WANT* to believe.
He is the perfect example of the saying: *"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."*
Praying for Somalia
It's sad 😔 but amazing content 👌 thanks for sharing may Allah blessed all with full health
This is really misleading, how many people could day every day not just covid-19 but other things. Covid-19 isn't problem in Somalia but flooding and hunger are
Yes, it's true that people could also be dying from other causes but if you follow it keenly, you will hear the reporter saying that the number of deaths have increased four-fold as compared to the times before Corona. That should tell us something, the biggest mistake we are making in Africa is living in denial.
@@jeremyobat6731 BROTHER COVID19 DOES NOT EXIST IN HOT COUNTRIES AND THAT IS A FACT.
@@jeremyobat6731 we already know that Jama was a critic to the president and his Gov't. Why not revealing Cocid-19 patients at homes.
There always an exceeds of death per month everywhere at least 10%
You know the culprit is
Dont say covid does not exist. It spreads false information. People are dying and untill it reaches on your doorstep personally is when you will realise. But please dont spread false rumors that Covid does not exist
Please make more somalia documentaries
Africa ❤💚💜💙🧡💛
@SENEGAL INTERNATIONAL TV I completely understand and 1000% agree with you 💯💯
@SENEGAL INTERNATIONAL TV what is wrong if Aishling McNamee shows us 💚💜💙🧡💛love
I was born in Martiini 😭😭😭😭
You BBC people, don't you know that the "normal" mortality rate in Somalia (for cancer, old age, diabetes etc) is 445 every day?
Take that number and divide it over the whole population.
The graves in Somalia are expanding very slowly
The annual death rate is less than 2%
While the anjual birth rate is more than 4%
Oooo... Lord 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Ooh God help the people
I am glad I visited somalia before covid
Why are people not wearing masks?
Maybe there aren't any to buy, or they cost a lot? There are probably also people who don't believe it's so serious, so they don't wear masks because of that.
Is there a CZcams video about living in Al-Shabaab territory in Somalia in the era of Covid19.
Jamal osman the only Somali journalist ever ✊🏿
Ilahay haanaxristo inta dhimatay
34 years old leaving behind 11 children 🙄🙄🙄
I was thinking the same like, his wife must've been pregnant nonstop😬
Nice video
Thnka I am from somalia
@@updisalam4260 stay Safe!
Prayers to the people of Somalia.
The US is struggling too
The storm shell pass inshalah
A doctor with covid 19 treating other patients. I love my people wallahi
The doctor got the virus because he was trying to help people who got it. What's he gonna do? Infect them again? They're all there because they have it. The only ones who are in danger of being infected, are the doctors. Risking their lives every day, don't you have the shame to be at least a LITTLE thankful to them?
Sabr jamiil
Ignorance will have a devastating results
People of Somalia avoid gatherings wear mask and seek medical help
Get serious guys am happy for that granny who recovered and the vibrant doctors and nurses who put their lives at frontline fight may you come out prosperous and victorious you deserve medals of honour
It fake bro
@@princetom9671 How is it fake bro? This is a documentary. Are you suggesting that the official number of covid death by the government (100) is correct? The increase in Graves says otherwise. Kano in Northern Nigeria insisted it was fake news too when people reported a spike in Graves and burial... But, when it got critical they quickly asked for help and declared an emergency. The quicker this disease is stemmed the better... There is no better way to fight it globally than by being open about it and taking pre emptive action. Stay home, stay safe, wear a mask, wash your hand frequently and maintain social distance...by a recovered Covid-19 patient from South West Nigeria.
@@jorgeo1401 wow open your eyes my brother ,you need to open your eyes ,BBC always protray fake news and documentary about Africans,plus the pandemic is a scamdemic ,it not real it fake just to control the masses
@@princetom9671 With all due respect sir... Did you read that I and my family had Covid-19?
So the loss of sense of smell, loss of sense of taste, lethargy, feeling of fluid gradually seeping into my lungs, prolonged chest and body ache was fake in my family?
Bros, I've lived on four continents and as an AA genotype I've had my fair share of illnesses... What I went through is new... It's a new combination of symptoms and it's not fake.
I can safely say it felt like malaria, thphoid without the stooling, plus drowning without being in water plus I can't explain the loss of the sense of smell and taste... The taste begins to fade and after a while sour, and salty things appear tasteless then you cannot taste sweet things... The last taste to go is the taste of bitterness... At that point, everything tastes bitter... Then nothing tastes anymore. Meat tastes like you are eating old rags and foofoo tastes like you are eating odorless half frozen butter. It may be anything but, it's not fake... It's real sir!
@@princetom9671 So basically, you're saying: *"wow open your eyes my brother, open your eyes when you bang your head against the wall, like me. Only then will you see how fake everything is that I don't believe in. Praise the wall!"*
I can't believe people like you actually exist ... /facepalm.
Hello BBC news Africa, how can I work for you? I'm passionate about reporting
Have you been on there website
Someone do a Covid-19 documentary on Tanzania. We need to know what is happening there
Why are you kenyans so obsessed with our country? Mind your own failing situation and leave us the hell alone.
The eyes are shedding tears and the heart is grieved, and we will not say except what pleases our almighty Allah.
I could not stop my tears from falling when I saw my father sheikh Abdi hafiid taking his last breaths in this documentary. The day my father passed away was a dark day. But everyone will eventually die. What pains me is that I wasn't beside my father in his deathbed, I would give everything I had to be near him in that moment, but I was very far from him. Rest in piece in Jannaah, my beloved father.
may Allah have mercy on him , it pains me a lot as a physician to see people are dying with out proper care in this manner .
May Allah save our ummah
While my heart breaks for that lady, there is a reason why we're told NOT TO TRAVEL
Wad salamntihin
Can we please have our Kenyan troops back home please, they are fighting a fake war.
They are fighting to get food and money as they are forever poor
Lol we dont want your kenyans here anyway take them
Brother we want off out SNA is doing a good job but the thing is that if they stay in somalia they get paid more but if they go to their home country they get paid less
they r not even fighting they just there to earn UN salary
@@xamsayassin4588 see who is calling someone poor. Born dry face is Somalia birth mark
The good thing Covid-19 is not even 75% fatal, maybe 15% fatal but what worrying me is long Covid-19 side effect called Long Covid.
I was infected twice, the first one my sense of smelling return within the weeks then 2 month later I was infected again I think this time it was delta and it changed my sense of smell till today, everything seems to smell awfully same.
Hope I will recover my sense of smell again.
May Allah protect my motherland for everything that's happing their and please if its not are real news don't this
2.5Million people divide 100 ventilator and Martini hospital, 10 doctors, 30 nurses do you think the credibility of the people is loss?
Stop lying we live in Mogadishu. It’s fake news. He is doing to get money. We need to fight these people. It’s sad to see somali man selling his country for what little price. He lives in Kenya. Have you ever seen this man talking about any good things Somali people.
I believe you ,it so sad it fake news
ok, what is your proof?
Why is it "fake news"?
Your kind is the reason Somalia will never be peaceful.
Ignorance is deeply rooted....so sad!
It stems from years of civil war & the dire need for political stability. If you have a generation born into such chaos, when all they've ever known was war & destruction, it's hard to instruct your average citizen that's living below the poverty line to follow the rules. They can't even earn an adequate living. It truly is deeply rooted.
God bless you 😢
sorry
18 min, still waiting for the grave digger!
😂😂
I don't know but here in USA just about all deaths are written as COVID19 WHEN IT CAN BE ANOTHER HEALTH ISSUE.
... you do realize, that just because they have diabetes or heart disease, doesn't make them immune to Covid-19, right?
If they die of a heart attack, it could be because Covid-19 triggered it. How is it wrong to say the cause of death is Covid-19 then? Don't try to downplay the severity of this.
Jamal you should do a documentary about the rising phenomenon of child sacrifice in Somalia specifically Mogadishu. A lot of children have been kidnapped and their organs been taken. It is relatively new in Somalia. I know many stories of it myself. Keep your kids safe people!!!
Wtf..sacrificed for what?
Where's tanzania
Somalia is the Libertarian paradise.
The health cares aren’t wearing the PPE right
Fake news bbc Africa long live 🇸🇴🇸🇴♥️♥️
They only show the few deaths in african country but what about america,why they cannot show
because like in Somalia most of the deaths are the very old, already very weak people or fake. [that cemetery already existed].
The USA media are all atheist marxists who hate conservatives like trump and use covid-19 and other means to topple his government.
They hate christians, and they hate muslims, but use muslims for now and will not fight against Islam till their older enemies are vanquished.
Sadly in my city garissa, they still don't give a fuck and we pray side by side in mosque which is very risky dialy I pray with fear cause I don't know the status of the guy next to me, as a medical student it really annoys me cause doctors all over the world have talked about importance of social distance, when I talk to some guys ,they Are like ",I will die when my time reaches" ,Somalis need Angels to come and warn them , I think we have misinterpreted and misunderstood the religion somehow 🤔
"Martini Hospital has 20 beds for 16 million. " WHAT A FRAUDULENT REPORTER. HOW IS BBC PAYING THIS GUY? MOGADISHU HAS A POPULATION OF 2.5 MILLION AND SOMALIS HAVEN'T REACHED 16 MILLION IN POPULATION YET.
Somalia has 16m people and miqdisho 3.5m
Bbe wey been badantahay soomaaaliya waxba kama jiro a
Korona fiyrsna aniga waxaan joogaa xarunta ugu wey ee ganacsiga marwalbana dad yow ka duban ayaa lakulmaa waxba kahorkag ma sameeyo marka majiro korona veyrus
Alxm we can say, most parts of the country recovered with covid-19 and none case was being reported, now on 29 July 2020.
Oh!! My God, Protect our weakness soul from pandemic disease 🤲🤲🤲🤲
The doctor shouldn't have actually kissed her phone. All the things she touches during ehr day to day working and living and then she touches her phone often. Phones can be a deadly fomite and vector.
Why people not taking virus seriously...no wearing of masks forget about sanitizer....let's government educate our people about this covid 19 and put measures to curb the spread.
Allh keeps us no one can help us so we are satisfying our time i.a day of the time we will be the key of life and i will wish my country peace and stability if Allah say
People in Africa should stop stigma and misleading information on covid19 lets us fight this vicious virus in a united manner take care of yourself so that the neighbor can also take care of you
Please do a Kenyan COVID documentary
Yetu ni horror
Mko na mushene, at least hatujafika huku. Mbona mwadharau nchi yenu?
@@matildawairimu6921 ....truth be told, we're probably following their way since our guidelines aren't being observed.
@@matildawairimu6921 Tupende nchi yenye haipendi wananchi wake!!! Always reading out statistics na hakuna cha maana serikali inasaidia wananchi! Useless !
Exactly...The Uhuruto bulcrap of a govt is merely reading out daily statistics while no prevention or even vaccine research is being done by the so called 'eduated' class at KEMRI or wherever....Bure kabisa!
Why keep your eyes on Africa ain't British dying of covid19 too.
Brother, there's a hidden agenda behind this team. Why can't we find a BBC Europe Eye, BBC Asia Eye, and the like? Why Africa only?? They want really to defame the beautiful content. The information they are telling about Somalia is fake. Nothing of what they are talking about Somalia is true. I live in Somalia. I haven't ever seen a person who suffering from coronovirus or died of it!!
It's called BBC Africa lol
@@najibtastic3597 The BBC investigative team and their program is called BBC Africa Eye lol
@@abdallaMoa Why? Why would they "defame the beautiful continent"? What would they gain from doing that?
You have this belief that BBC have an agenda to show bad things happening in Africa, but you don't say a word on how they benefit from that. You're just hating.
People seem unbothered about the pandemic....no one wears a mask...does the government really educate people about the disease??
King of Puntland this is a joke that I find nothing funny in anyway , if Somalis don’t fear death, then why are doctors wasting their time? Why do Somalis flee Somalia in times of military conflicts? All humans fear death it’s a natural instinct.
Most of them are fanatics
Why aren't people wearing masks in the streets?
Fareen Mohamed because of ignorance!
@17:00 the Doctor mentioned he took the available medicine after contracting Covid-19. After 48 hours he was feeling better he claimed….Was it Ivermectin? 🤷🏻♀️ Great documentary BBC….God Bless Somalia🙏🏼👋🏼🇨🇦
Jamal don't deserve to be called journalism although corona is spreading easy over rural areas n somalia. All we can do is to pray. May almighty Allah 🙏 help us and all human
Your kind is the reason Somalia will never be peaceful.
That music to loud in the backround and the guy talking over the music is to low I cant hear nothing he saying
That's corona symptoms
Drink some soap. Your ears are dirty
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Waanka xumahay
Ey ey dhalay weeye kan weriyaha
Waa kenyan xaasidnimo u qaba somalida
Nacalla wasaaradada ku yaal
Runtaa waye sxb
BBC will never cover such documentaries in urban African areas. Always painting Africa dirty.
Africa is beautiful but we must address every area to ensure its growth and prosperity, not just the things we don't like to see internationally
Tru’. Fake news. This man wil do anything to report bad things in somalia or Africa for what little price. Fuck western. They got COVID-19
Mohamed Zizz stop lying Bro The government is Lying about it not the reporter
@@serrobo The martini hospital featured in this report is a top class hospital. It's the best and virtually only hospital in Somalia. It's also an urban hospital. I am a recovered Covid-19 patient, a Nigerian... Covid is real... You can say the west alone has it but we are dieing because we deny it... Denial is not a cure. I know many who died in my country Nigeria who are not recorded as having died of Corona virus complications. Let's be open and honest about this disease... Africans are dieing.
This Doc is in Mogadishu, the most urban part of Southern Somalia 😂
Next time show us mass graveyards in Britain..and give us a break
They can't do that
Your kind is the reason Somalia will never be peaceful.
all muslims shld have the same belief bt observe the safety guide lines even the holy quran sunna of our beloved prophet emphasised safety precautions n restricted movement in times of calamitys