Sominé Dolo

Sominé Dolo (1922 – March 15, 1972) was a Malian doctor and politician who served as Mali's first minister of health.

Biography Sominé Dolo was born in 1922 in Sangha, Mali, in the Mopti region's Bandiagara Cercle. From 1939 to 1942, he attended the École normale supérieure William Ponty, followed by the École nationale de médecine et pharmacie in Dakar, Senegal.

Then, after Mali gained independence, he was re-appointed by President Modibo Keïta as minister of health and social affairs, becoming the newly independent country's first health minister. He would hold the position for eight years.

In 1968, he was involved in the founding of the country's National School of Medicine and Pharmacy. Shortly after, he was traveling abroad in Senegal during the 1968 Malian coup d'état, after which Moussa Traoré replaced him as minister of health with Bénétieni Fofana. However, he was not himself targeted by the coup leaders, and he became the regional director of health for Bamako.

Dolo died in Bamako in 1972. A hospital in the town of Mopti bears his name.