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Hormuud Telecom brings 350 together to discuss Somali healthcare investment

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Hormuud Telecom brings 350 together to discuss Somali healthcare investment

Hormuud Telecom brought about 350 participants together in Mogadishu for the fifth Somalia’s Success Story Forum, focused on healthcare investment and improving medical services. Somali Health Minister Ali Haji Adam opened the event, held under the theme “Towards a Healthy Somalia”, Shabellemedia reports.

About 350 people attended the fifth edition of the Somalia’s Success Story Forum in Mogadishu on Tuesday 20 October, focusing on investment in healthcare and improving medical services, Shabellemedia reports. Hormuud Telecom, Somalia’s leading telecommunications company, organised the meeting at Jazeera Hotel under the theme “Towards a Healthy Somalia”.

Somalia’s Health Minister Ali Haji Adam opened the forum and said investment in healthcare was essential to the country’s development. Hormuud Telecom Chairman Ahmed Mohamed Yusuf said the company had chosen healthcare as the theme to recognise the work of professionals in the sector, encourage better services and strengthen public confidence.

Somalia’s Minister of Planning, Investment and Economic Development, Mohamud Abdirahman Benabene, also praised the initiative. Discussions focused on access to healthcare, infrastructure gaps and ways to help hospitals develop specialist services.

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