Edna Adan: The Nurse

Edna Adan is the founder of The Edna Adan Hospital and Edna Adan University. Previously she was Minister of Foreign Affairs for her country and a First Lady, being married to the President of Somalia. We speak about her amazing path and her latest book 'A Woman of Firsts'. 

Do visit the website of the Edna Adan Hospital here to find out more about the great work Edna is doing in Somaliland: https://ednahospitalfoundation.org

Edna's book 'A Woman of Firsts' is available on Amazon, click on this link if you would like to know more: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07S31MCJS/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_EC27X1TEBZ4BBE09M65S

Guest Introduction: 

"Who’s Edna Adan? The short answer: she’s a nurse-midwife, founder of a hospital bearing her name, who’s saving and changing the lives of tens of thousands of people in Somaliland — a place not even recognized as a country. She’s also a Muslim.

Edna is as tough as General Petraeus, as compassionate as the Pope, as tireless as Michael Phelps, as beautiful at 75 as Tina Turner, and has a ‘get-it-done-no-excuses” work ethic to rival Bill Gates. I would not want to be on Edna’s bad side."  

(from 'The Muslim mother Theresa' written by Kate Grant, CEO of the Fistula Foundation in The Huffington Post in 2012)