Somaliland First Medicine Production facility to be build in Hargeysa

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

 

On Saturday 3rd May, Hargeisa’s Edna Adan picked up a shovel to help make seven bricks in a symbolic act representing the seven months Edna’s project team have to complete their project to build a pharmaceutical production plant in Masalaha, Hargeisa that will create a range of locally manufactured medical products for Somalilanders that were previously only available as imported goods.

 

The new production factory is expected to create a total of 25 new full-time jobs and perhaps 10 seasonal part-time jobs once it opens for business later in the year. Providing “safe, quality assured intra-venous medical fluids made by Somalis to the highest international standards” this new venture will demonstrate that significant developments in local medical care are happening behind the scenes with Somalilanders taking responsibility for “making things happen”.

 

With Somaliland Business Fund’s Asha Ahmed by her side, Edna joined the brick-makers and ground-works teams on site to oversee the preparation work for the construction of the new production facility in Masalaha, Hargeisa. When the bricks had been made and an inspection of the ground-works completed, Edna had this to say to Somaliland’s future entrepreneurs: “If you want to be successful in business you need to know how every job in your business needs to be done, and done well! You need to be prepared to make sacrifices to your free time, your savings, and the time you spend with your family and friends.”

 

 

With the seven bricks drying in the sun and Asha Ahmed having been taught a new skill by the project’s brick-making team, Edna had a few words to say to a younger generation of potential entrepreneurs “. You need to be honest with yourself and learn from your experiences. No new project or job is easy to do well without a personal sacrifice being made, or some painful lessons being learned. If you commit to a project, or a new business you should understand that failure is not an option. Resources are finite and you need to learn how to use them to the maximum effect, or you will one day find yourself looking back with regret at lost opportunities.”

 

Somaliland Business Fund is implemented by Landell Mills International Development Consultants, UK and managed by a Fund Management Unit (FMU) based in Hargeisa.

 

- Somaliland Business Fund (SBF)

[Mahiigaan]

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Isn't there an industrial zone in Hargeisa. Masallah is where the UN will have offices and it is not far from the airport, is that true?. I know people who have built some expensive homes there.

 

[CidanSultan]

Masalaha is my home wonderful place to live. All NGOs are there top hotels. Flat land strong winds ie no maskitos Alxamdulilah. Large mosque as been built and we even have a Turkish Restuarant.

 

Top place mashallah.

 

Best houses after calamdaha and right next to the airport

[Abu-Salman]

 

IV fluids manufacturing is very basic, initial stage of the industry if not almost an extension of the healthcare but it demonstrates willingness to improve the efficiency and finances of local healthcare. It is all great but the health of the nation should not rest on an old lady or few individuals and NGOs but an efficient civil service backed by a solid tax system (10% of overall public spending at the very least).

 

There is no progress worth mentioning without universal primary care and public health system dealing with prevention (dealing with widespread maternal and child malnutrition, sky high birth mortality rates or even the recent AIDS trend).

 

It's very hard indeed to reverse the devastating pregnancy or before pregnancy maternal malnutrition for instance and very basic child nutrition support make a huge difference at all levels during the lifetime; thus, giving such sections vouchers etc should be a crucial government priority.

 

 

PS talking about areas, Hargeysa Shacabka area is by far my fabvorite albeit overbuilt lately and heavily polluted if not noisy thanks to the traffic explosion etc (the dry river or dooxa, State house area remaining space etc should all be protected and public parks and pedestrian only zones created to make it liveable and less toxic with leaded fuel banned as elsewhere in the world).

[Dr_Osman]

Anther copy on the garowe pharmaceutical factory. Get your own ideas so pathetic. U won't catch up to Puntland manufacturing, we got 200 factories in Bosaso alone producing all sort of different industries, water, sodas, mattresses, boats, furnitures, engines, gas, oxygen, medicines, fishery, meat, cement, leather, textiles, and so many more i've lost count.

 

 

[DoctorKenney]

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Anther copy on the garowe pharmaceutical factory. Get your own ideas so pathetic. U won't catch up to Puntland manufacturing, we got 200 factories in Bosaso alone producing all sort of different industries, water, sodas, mattresses, boats, furnitures, engines, gas, oxygen, medicines, fishery, meat, cement, leather, textiles, and so many more i've lost count.

 

LOL That was a little too far saaxib. Any progress is good progress, and all Somalis are richer as a result.

 

But if this is how you feel, then let Somalis compete. Which region has the best healthcare, the best manufacturing base, the best roads or skyscrapers. Competition is good, it'll raise Somali living standards and benefit all of us. When Somalis compete as to which region is more prosperous, they're indirectly pushing the entire country forward.

[CidanSultan]

The irony is that somaliland has its own currency an is seperate from Somalia so if your arguing that mugdisho should compete with jowhar etc sure but don't this competition is the same as Djibouti competing with Ethiopia etc.

 

Somalilands development doesn't have anything to do with the logo standards of Somalia.

[DoctorKenney]

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@CidanSultan

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The irony is that somaliland has its own currency an is seperate from Somalia so if your arguing that mugdisho should compete with jowhar etc sure but don't this competition is the same as Djibouti competing with Ethiopia etc.

 

Somalilands development doesn't have anything to do with the logo standards of Somalia.

 

Warya why do you always feel the need to argue.

 

The fact is, there's not a single prosperous Somali region, regardless of what flag they choose to fly. Since when did I restrict this competition to borders? Jigjiga and Djibouti can join in on this as well, along with Garissa, Mogadishu, Bosaso and Hargeisa. They are all Somali cities.

 

Competition is good for all Somalis. It'll inadvertently raise our living standards. Before you know it, Somalis will be debating which region has the best cities, the largest economies and the safest streets.

[Hawdian]

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@Dr_Osman

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Anther copy on the garowe pharmaceutical factory. Get your own ideas so pathetic. U won't catch up to Puntland manufacturing, we got 200 factories in Bosaso alone producing all sort of different industries, water, sodas, mattresses, boats, furnitures, engines, gas, oxygen, medicines, fishery, meat, cement, leather, textiles, and so many more i've lost count.

 

How is it to live in the closest thing to Jannah In Duniya , Bari, Buntaland , hhhhhhhhhh noo waran

deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Somaliland laid foundation of the First automobile industry when they assembled the First Car last year and now the Pharmaceutical industry. Soon Somalilanders will produce Computers and other sort of technology, a Technological mixed with entrepreneurial based economy with a free market zone.

 

Somalilanders love you Edna you are one of a Kind and history will remember you as one of the greatest Somalilanders contributed so much to this nation

 

 

Long live Somaliland and its people.