SOMALI doctor Abdullahi Sheikdon Dini fulfilled his dream of opening Mogadishu’s first advanced diagnostics lab in January this year. Two months later, and the coronavirus pandemic had reached the Horn of Africa.
The Somali lab that opened at just the right time
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