Chapter 88 Admission of Refugees

In just one month, a stretch of tents was built around the base.

These tents, which were specially used to house the refugees, were not funded by Li Lan, but were sent by Farah after he brought food.

The tent group was clearly divided into two parts, two parts in the middle, dozens of doctors in white coats and nurses acting as mobilizers, constantly busy on the long tables that had been set up.

Refugees come from far and wide, all for the coastal city of Bossaso.

In previous years, during the famine, a large number of refugees rushed to Bossaso, but the drought for five consecutive years has caused the number of refugees this year to increase dramatically.

The way forward is bound to be full of corpses, and I don't know how many bones are left on the desert every year.

This year, for the first time, the refugees who went to Bossaso immediately ushered in help. In the past, it was not that there were no relief organizations to help refugees, but it was not a short time to wait for the arrival of relief supplies.

The refugees did not know who the soldiers were shouting at them along the way, but the lure of food made it impossible for anyone to trek to Bossaso, and even the group of refugees who were already on the verge of reaching Bossaso turned around and went to the base under the guidance of propaganda vehicles.

There are also many temporary armed aid stations along the road to replenish the physical strength of those refugees who are almost unable to support themselves.

When they arrived, each family was given a tent to live in and clean drinking water and enough food to feed them, depending on their ethnic group or village.

This was unimaginable to the refugees in the past, some said it was the kingdom of heaven, others said it was a gift from Allah.

While the refugees were singing, another piece of news came.

It's amazing news that every family can get a job that pays no less than ten dollars a month when they become residents here.

In this country where refugees can be avoided as much as possible, there are people who recruit refugees as residents, instead of refugees relying on them, such unprecedented news makes many refugees really unimaginable.

Especially for work, the monthly salary of ten US dollars, this is not a developed country, the employment rate here is not even 1 percent in Somalia, ten dollars is not a lot at all, equal to 70,000 Somali shillings, a little thrift is enough for a family of five to live a month.

Those who serve as soldiers under the Shili and the government are only ten dollars a month. Being a soldier in Somalia is not about training all day, it's about being ready to fight all the time. For the ten dollars a month, it's basically earning money with your life.

And for the ten dollars, the people who want to be soldiers can go to the sea. Therefore, this news, for these refugees, is no less than the gospel that came down from heaven.

However, to become a resident here, there are no requirements at all.

First of all, you must be in good health and not carry any diseases. Anyone who wants to be a resident of this area must go through several medical tests and have their entire body disinfected. In this way, they can say goodbye to their temporary tents, receive new clothes, and live in permanent shelters within the walls.

In fact, this is not the first medical examination of these refugees at the base, as they have undergone a medical examination as early as when they are living in these makeshift tents.

Poor physical fitness made Li Lan pay a lot of energy and a lot of base funds for this.

Especially those children, none of them belong to the healthy qualifications, not to mention thinness, and few of them have reached the level of health. As a result, the camp was divided into two parts, one serving as a temporary ward and the other as a place for the refugees.

The 10 doctors in the field hospital had no personal time since they began to accept refugees. To this end, Farah also used his energy in Bossaso to send more than a dozen qualified doctors to the base.

These doctors are all Somalis, and they have all returned from studying abroad, and most of them have returned from studying medicine in China. At Farah's call, he came to Li Lan's territory and joined the medical team. And Li Lan, what she paid for was medicine.

Compared with the lack of doctors, medicines are more scarce in Somalia than doctors, even a small bottle of anti-inflammatory drugs, its price is more than 100 times more expensive than the outside world. And in many cases, medicines are monopolized by warlords and governments, and civilians cannot buy them, even if they have money.

If it weren't for the fact that some basic medicines could be produced in the base, I am afraid that Li Lan would have a headache for this, because even Farah would not be able to get the medicines that could meet the needs. However, the base is not a panacea, and can only produce some simple medicines, such as anti-inflammatory drugs, glucose, cold medicines, antitoxins...... And so on and so forth. Other things, not to mention vaccines, not even some specific drugs for diseases. The list of drug production at the base, more for the war effort.

These refugees came from all over the world, and if Li Lan wanted to turn them into residents of his own territory, he would have to go through strict screening. Medical testing is to prevent people with symptoms such as AIDS from entering the territory.

This is very important, in Africa, it is very easy to find an AIDS patient, because Africa is the hardest hit area of AIDS, accounting for nearly 10% of the entire population, but the number of people living with AIDS and HIV accounts for more than 70% of the world. At present, AIDS has become the "number one killer" in Africa, and the number of people who die from AIDS every year is 10 times higher than the number of people who die from wars and natural disasters.

It has been proven many times that the rapid spread of AIDS is closely linked to poverty. The poorer the country, the more and more concentrated the number of people living with AIDS. In poor countries, the rate of AIDS spread is particularly alarming due to poor living conditions, low levels of education, limited funding, lack of access to medicines, poor means of prevention and treatment, and inability to purchase medicines.

Then again, Somalia does not have many people living with AIDS, and it can be called a very polite country. Its infection rate is a full three percentage points less than Somalia's neighbor Ethiopia's 3.8 percent. It can be said that it is one of the countries with the fewest AIDS patients in the whole of Africa, the same as the 0.8% of Spain, a developed country in the West. This is also due to the Somali tight control over the relationship between men and women, which is the first benefit.

However, Li Lan did not dare to be careless because of this, AIDS is one thing, but in the case of general unhealth, there is no AIDS, and other infectious diseases, such as yellow fever, malaria, and other high-risk infectious diseases that are common in Africa, must be controlled.

Secondly, people who pass the physical examination are not 100% able to become residents of this place as they wish, and they also need to go through a secret test, but this is done silently. It was not disclosed to these refugees.

In addition to the inspection of the physical condition, there is also whether it will be detrimental to the base, in order to prevent those with ill intentions from entering the territory, spying on information or sabotage, Li Lan ordered people to set up a non-public inspection.

Tables are set up on the outskirts of the territory, where all refugees who have passed the medical check, and when they are dressed in their new clothes, the soldiers ask a few simple questions, followed by photographs, identify them and enter their identities into the computer to establish identification.

It seems very simple, but it is actually within the warning range of the military dogs on the side.

Under the extremely special insight skills of military dogs, those with the purpose of espionage and sabotage cannot escape the perception of military dogs at all. However, these military dogs did not pounce as in the game, but bared their teeth to warn.

And those refugees who have been bared will be recorded, and at present, Li Lan does not want to move them, but monitors some people. On the map of the base, these people will be marked with red dots, and Li Lan can clearly know their every move.

However, there are not many of these people, since the beginning of accepting refugees as residents, half a month has passed, and the territory has issued tens of thousands of household registration books for them, accommodating 50,000 or 60,000 people, while the number of red dots is only a dozen.

At present, these people live on the west side of the outer wall of the original base, and together with the villagers brought by Muhammadi, they are divided into a small town, and the area where they live is also temporarily divided into the first residential area, which is nearly 15 kilometers away from the base car.

This place is also under the construction of the wall and Li Lan's gossip array city, and the first paid job to welcome these refugees is to build their homes.

However, these refugees are only a small minority, and there are still hundreds of thousands of refugees in the refugee settlements. Still, many refugees sign up every day.