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British-Somalian doctor returns home to help battle coronavirus epidemic

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June 11, 2020
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London, June 11, 2020 (AltAfrica)-British-Somalian doctor, Jihan Mohamud has returned home to join in the battle against coronavirus epidemic

But her journey home was accidental. She had gone to Somalia for the first time last year to bury her father in the land of his birth.

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British-Somalian doctor, Jihan Ali Mohamud, works at the national coronavirus disease call centre where they supervise calls to a free hotline number as a response to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mogadishu, Somalia June 2, 2020. (Reuters)

Finding solace from her grief, she stayed on, and she is now on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 in the city he loved.

“During the times of health crisis, there are only two things people look up to in the hope of life: God and doctors,” said the 25-year-old from Coulsdon, south of London. “It’s a blessing to be able to help someone in pain.”

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She spends her 16-hour work days analyzing data in a government call center in Mogadishu, a lifeline for people seeking advice and treatment for coronavirus in a country whose healthcare system has been ravaged by violence and poverty.

“If it were not for this call center … people would go to every hospital and spread the virus,” she said.

The center gets between 6,000-7,000 calls per day, she said, data the Health Ministry uses to track COVID-19 outbreaks, allocate scarce resources and respond to emergencies.

Somalia has documented 2,416 confirmed coronavirus cases and 85 deaths.

Fighting between government forces and Al-Shabaab insurgents means testing has been sporadic at best, suggesting the true figures are far higher.

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