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Health
Abdi Sheikh

Somali doctors open war-scarred nation's only public blood bank

Mohamed Abdi Hussein donates blood next to Rage Moalin Ali, who waits to donate blood, and nurse Fatima Hassan, at the Benadir Blood Service, in Mogadishu, Somalia February 7, 2022. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

When Somalia's biggest bomb blast killed more than 500 people in 2017, Dr. Ahmed Abdikadir Mohamed watched helplessly as many of the injured bled to death.

Exactly one year later, in October 2018, Mohamed opened Benadir Blood Service, Somalia's first public blood bank since 1991.

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