In June 2006, SEHO started funding the first maternity hospital in the District of Bardera in Gedo Region. Bardera Distirct Hospital, the district's only hospital, was rendered useless due to disrepair and neglect for more than a decade. 

The last time the Bardera Hospital functioned was in 1999 when area famous doctor, Dr. Kasim and his team were running Bardera main hospital. Bardera District Hospital was last sufficiently operational back when the UN and US forces were stationed in Bardera during 1993-1995 UN's humanaterian intervention in Somalia. 

Dr. Kasim Aden Egal, also spelled Kassim or Qassim, served many major towns of Jubba Regions such as Bardera and Kismayo. Dr. Kasim was killed on August 19, 1999 while travelling in a small village in Middle Jubba, called Hargeisa Yarey. Dr Kasim at the time worked for the UN's WHO.

Doctor killings and similar acts against highly trained professionals, made many of the vital health service providers in Somalia to avoid working in less secure places in the country. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals have chosen to work in places like Nairobi, where they make twice what they would have earned in Somalia. Those who opt out to work else where, point out the added safety at their current work. For the last ten years or so, hospitals in Somalia are mostly staffed with nurses and midwives with the exception of Mogadishu and Hargeisa hospitals where some of the nation's trained doctors remained since the start of the civil war. Some lucky hospitals outside of Mogadishu get doctor's visit few times a month.

From 2004 to late 2006, Baidoa, Jowhar and Wajid have seen their health sector services rebounded. Most of the health centers in these towns functioned at various capacities between those years before the Ethiopian Army Invation of 2007 intrupted all services in the country, including health services.  

Taking note of the reality on the ground, since 2006, SEHO has staffed, equipped and supplied a rented, five-room maternity hospital run by nurses and two of the city's most experienced midwives, Makrabo Bilaal Kuulow and Fadumo Mohamed Elmi. The medicine in the pharmacy at Bardera Maternity Hospital (formerly East Bardera Mothers and Chidlren's Hospital) comes from USA, Canada and Kenya. Make use of the resources you have, is the philosophy encouraged by SEHO.

Bardera Maternity Hospital staff include 2 qualified nurses, 2 traditional midwives or (TBA) along with a junior pharmacist and her assistant. There has been great improvements made in the health services geared towards women and children in the District of Bardera. Lack of general hospital in this city of 106,000 inhabitants draws ordinary folks seeking health attention to come to the maternity hospital.

SEHO currently gives support to various other health posts in: 

Abudwak (Galgadud Region)

Hagar (Lower Jubba Region)

Nasariah (Lower Jubba Region)

These centers benefit from SEHO's medicine supplies, financial contributions, health trainings (fees paid) and information sharing.