Edna Adan Ismail

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Edna Adan Ismail (Somali: Edna Aadan Ismaaciil or Adna Aadan Ismaaciil; born 1937) is the former Foreign Minister of the unrecognized Republic of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa. She held this office from 2003 until 2006. Before, she was the Minister of Family Welfare and Social Development.

By trade, she is a midwife.

She started building a hospital in Mogadishu in the mid 1980's,however, before it was completed, the Somali civil war began, and she was forced to leave the country. She became the Representative of the UN- World Health Organization in Djibouti) between 1991 to 1997. In the early 1990's she returned to Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. Prior to taking up her governmental portfolio, she built from scratch a maternity hospital which she continues to run. The Hospital construction started in 1998 and finished in 2002. Since the region lacked trained nurses to staff the hospital, Edna recruited more than 30 candidates and began training them in 2000 while the hospital was still under construction. Called the 'Edna Adan Hospital' it has two operating theatres, laboratory, library, computer centre and a complete wing dedicated to training nurses and midwives

On the 7th of July 2006 a short press release was updated on the official site of the unrecognized Somaliland government about a cabinet shuffling. Edna Adan Ismail was replaced with former Minister of Information and National Guidance Abdillahi Mohamed Dualeh.