BACKGROUND
Following the fall of the Somali Central Government in 1990 law & order were lost. Unfortunately, all public and social services, local, regional, and central governing and institutions were destroyed, looted, and were left at the mercy of roaming and marooning. All institutions that served the public and civil society were made operationally dysfunctional and physically reduced to states of rabbles. All legal, social, and physical infrastructures that have been serving the civil society and the nation were destroyed and taken over by unscrupulous people. Civil strife reined, chaos became the order of the day, and good common sense became the thing of the past and nation stepped into National Disaster which is the first of its kind in modern history of the 21st Century. A group of forwarding thinking concerned professionals started Sool Institute of Health Science (SIHS) in August, 2008from bootstrap at a modestly furnished rented building in Lasanod, Sool Region in response to the total collapse of health system of Sool Region and beyond. SIHS organized & offered Diploma Programs and trainings to health workforce in response to that serious crisis to train semi-skilled & skilled health workers for Sool Region. After nine (2017) years the young institutions was renamed Sool College of Health Science (SCHS) and remains to be the work horse for the Health System in Sool Region by focusing where the community needs the most with its meager resources. Training nurses, midwives, and other skilled &semi-skilled health workforce remained the priority of SCHS.
SCHS offered Degree & Diploma programs of Nursing, Midwifery, and Medical Laboratory. Equally important, semi-skilled health workers (Post Basic Midwifery) are trained as well. Also assistant nurses, nurse aids, and traditional midwives are trained. Other semi-skilled (Post Basic) health trainees were taught basic hygiene, emergency quick skills, and other heath workers are equipped with better skills to man hospitals, MCHs, Health Centers, health posts, etc. serving rural communities and urban centers in Sool Region and beyond. Again, late 2020 Sool College of Health Science (SCHS) was renamed to Sool University (SU). Amazingly, SU will continue to offers “Diploma & Degree Programs” in Health Science while repositioning itself to offer selected appropriate other fields and disciplines that shall contribute significantly to the improvement of living standards and economic wellbeing of the citizens of Sool Region by building on the lessons learned from well over a decade of valuable experience gained.
Sool University (SU) is repositioning itself to be the preferred “Higher Education Institution” that shall provide the local and appropriate professionals that shall propel economic wellbeing and better living standards in Sool Region by being selective and tailoring educational programs that are responsive to needs of Sool community needs.
Sool University shall continue to explore and establish a system and culture of continuing professional development through diverse modes of delivery with the principles of life-long learning to meet the professionals‟ demand in the region.
SU is re-affirming its commitment to attain the following objectives:
SU offers health professionals at Higher Education setting in diploma and degree programs to meet the need of urban centers and rural communities. Also, structured continuous academics program based on the demand of the region may be leveraged with technology as needed. SU shall publish Diploma and Degree Programs yearly on separate publication.
Following guidelines shall apply all academic programs offered by SU:
d. A student graduates in an academic program when s/he completes required courses at same times meets minimum standards set for the academic program.