MOH: Dhi Qar Medical City Project to be Completed within (3) Years

Baghdad - INA

The Ministry of Health confirmed today, Saturday, that the Medical City Project in Dhi Qar Governorate will be completed within three years.

Ministry of Health spokesman Saif al-Badr told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The Medical City Project in Nasiriyah, Dhi Qar Governorate, whose contract signing ceremony was sponsored by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and attended by Health Minister Saleh al-Hasnawi, is one of the major strategic projects in Iraq." He noted that "the project will be implemented in two phases and completed within three years."

Al-Badr added that “the medical city project includes (13) independent medical facilities, including 7 hospitals with a total capacity of (700) beds, namely the main hospital with 200 beds, a specialized children’s hospital with 100 beds, a specialized women’s hospital with 100 beds, a center for blood diseases and oncology treatment with 100 beds, a specialized internal medicine and digestive system hospital with 100 beds, an emergency hospital with 50 beds, a complex of consulting clinics, specialized centers, buildings for forensic medicine, research and studies, a blood bank, and a doctors’ house,” indicating that “the project will be built on an area of ​​(132) dunums, and the first phase of the project will be built on an area of ​​93 dunums, while the second phase will be built on an area of ​​39 dunums.”