Edna Adan Ismail is a nurse, midwife, a retired United Nations diplomat, French Legion of Honour recipient, Former First Lady and former foreign minister of #Somaliland -- an unrecognized, self-declared state that has been going it alone since 1991. Adan Ismail was also a founding member of the Somali Red Crescent back in 1963. The tireless 80-year-old has poured everything she has, including her pension, into providing much-needed health care to a population with one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world -- a situation that's been exasperated by Somalia's long civil war, which led to the death or departure of nearly all of the country's health care workers. During her TEDxRC² talk, Adan Ismail demonstrates how hospitals like hers (which she dared to build on the site of an old killing ground and graveyard) are on the pioneering edge of training local medical professionals to meet local health challenges. #Africa #globalhealth #maternalhealth #midwifery #midwivesmatter #natgeotraveller #HealthForAll …see more