Somalia Built Oxygen Plant to Combat Covid

Somalia’s first large-scale factory producing much-needed medical oxygen has been opened in the capital, Mogadishu.<br />The plant will produce 1,000 cylinders of oxygen per week and is seen as a huge step forward in strengthening the country’s public health infrastructure.<br />Health Minister Fawzia Abikar Nur admitted that people had great difficulty in getting medical oxygen, vital in saving patients’ lives when the pandemic first hit.