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Dr. Hawa Abdi has treated sick and wounded Somalis since 1983, through famine and civil war, but Islamist rebels wrecked her life's work in one day in May last year. Within a week, she rediscovered an older, more civil Somali society that has survived despite the horrors that have beset her East African homeland.
Dr. Hawa Abdi has treated sick and wounded Somalis since 1983, through famine and civil war. But it only took one day for Islamist rebels to wreck her life's work.
"They just started shooting," she said. "There was screaming everywhere."
Dr. Abdi says the hospital now must perform brutal triage to determine who is most in need of help.
