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Horn of Africa Health Project

Dr. Mohamed Abdihalim, a U.S.-based neuroradiologist originally from Somalia, founded Somali Medical Relief in 2017 to bring imaging to rural clinics in the Horn of Africa. Working with the Green Medical network, he scaled the project into a remote radiology service: scans taken in Bosasso are read by Dr. Abdihalim from the Twin Cities using cloud-based imaging.

13,000+patients reached
3,360stroke patients
2,750cancer patients

In December 2020 the project opened a second site with a CT scanner. Today it is the only radiology provider within a 500-mile radius in northeast Somalia. The Green Medical network helped by connecting the project with health-technology partners for clinical support and telemedicine software, and with practice-management experts who helped source discounted radiology equipment.

Bosasso, a port city of nearly 200,000 near the tip of the Horn of Africa, has been a Sister City of Minneapolis since 2014. In 2019 Dr. Abdihalim received the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Quinn Prize for this work.

"I learned from my work in Bosasso to not to be afraid to try to make some positive impact, no matter how little, on huge societal problems."Dr. Mohamed Abdihalim, on receiving the Quinn Prize

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