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Somalia opens first public oxygen plant to help treat Covid-19 amid severe shortage

General Director of Banadir Hospital, Fartun Sharif inspects the medical oxygen cylinder tanks at the Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. [Reuters]

Somalia's first public oxygen plant opened on Thursday, in a ray of hope for a country where a lifesaving treatment for the coronavirus has been largely unavailable to patients during the pandemic.

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