2017.10.22 埃德娜-阿丹-伊斯梅尔 助产士

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Edna Adan Ismail is a midwife and campaigner. As a 12 year old growing up in British Somaliland, her dream was to build her own hospital. It took her some 50 years and all her savings to realise her ambition, and the state of the art hospital she built is a testament to her passion and dogged determination.

Nursing and midwifery have been her life since she won a scholarship to study in the UK in the mid-1950s, when she cycled to appointments in her black raincoat to deliver babies all around London. Married at one time to the prime minister of Somalia, she juggled the high profile role of First Lady with shifts at her local hospital. "I was born with this desire to fix things," she says.

As her country's first female foreign minister, she broke deep-rooted taboos by publicly condemning the widespread practice of female genital mutilation - FGM. Her opposition stems from personal experience - she was only eight years old when she endured the invasive procedure herself.

Now 80, she lives on site at her beloved hospital, where more than 22,000 babies have been born since it opened in 2002.



埃德娜-阿丹-伊斯梅尔是一名助产士和运动家。作为一个在英属索马里兰长大的12岁孩子，她的梦想是建立自己的医院。她花了大约50年的时间和所有的积蓄才实现了她的雄心壮志，而她所建造的最先进的医院就是她的热情和坚定的决心的证明。

自从她在20世纪50年代中期赢得奖学金到英国学习以来，护理和助产一直是她的生命，当时她穿着黑色雨衣骑自行车赴约，在伦敦各地为婴儿接生。她曾一度与索马里总理结婚，在当地医院轮流值班，兼顾第一夫人的高调角色。"她说："我生来就有这种解决事情的愿望。

作为她的国家的第一位女外交部长，她打破了根深蒂固的禁忌，公开谴责普遍存在的女性生殖器切割--女性生殖器切割的做法。她的反对源于个人经历--她在8岁的时候就亲自忍受了这种侵入性手术。

现在，80岁的她住在她心爱的医院里，自2002年医院开业以来，已有超过22000名婴儿在这里出生。