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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. https://youtu.be/dZD_hVYTzCA
ABDI SHEIKH HAVING scraped money together following medical studies abroad, Somali doctor Abdullahi Sheikdon Dini opened Mogadishu's first advanced diagnostic laboratory in January. Its arrival could hardly have been better timed because, just two months later, the coronavirus epidemic reached the Horn of Africa country. Since then Medipark Diagnostics, which he runs with five other doctors who pooled $1 million to buy equipment, has become a linchpin of the country's creaking, donor-supported health infrastructure. Hospitals in the battle-scarred city that once had to wait weeks for blood test results now use the lab to test for conditions including HIV and…
