Doctor's self-funded test lab leads way in Somalia's COVID fight

Having scraped money together following medical studies abroad, Somali doctor Abdullahi Sheikdon Dini opened Mogadishu’s first advanced diagnostic laboratory in January.

Somali doctor Abdullahi Shekhdoon, the managing director of Medipark Diagnostics lab that runs tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), checks on a patient at the laboratory in Mogadishu, Somalia October 13, 2020. [Reuters]

Its arrival could hardly have been better timed because, just two months later, the coronavirus epidemic reached the Horn of Africa country.