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How life-saving maternity care came to Somaliland

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Edna Adan is on a mission to turn suppression into success for the women of Somaliland.

Somaliland, a region of Somalia that lay in ruin from years of war, suffers some of the world's highest rates of infant and maternal mortality. But 15 years ago, Edna Adan fulfilled a lifelong dream by building a nonprofit hospital and nursing school to address the health needs of women. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.

08/09/2017

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