Somalia opens its first public oxygen plant amid pandemic struggles

Somalia opens its first public oxygen plant amid pandemic struggles
A worker shows oxygen cylinders during an event to unveil a new oxygen plant at Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia (Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP)

Somalia has opened the country’s first public oxygen plant as it tries to combat Covid-19.

The Horn of Africa nation has one of the world’s weakest health systems

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