The deputy chairman of Wassit provincial council, Mehdi al-Mussawi, told Aswat al-Iraq that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with an Iranian company to build a 500-megawatt power station on a deferred payment basis, in addition to a 400-bed hospital and 5000 flats housing complex. The MOU, which the approval of the electricity […]
AKnews reports that a German company has started work on a $200 million hospital in the al-Qayara district of Nineveh, 30 km south of the provincial capital Mosul. A Nineveh health official told the agency that the 600-bed hospital will serve the surrounding area which is in "desparate need" of medical facilities. Currently, people in […]
A new children’s hospital in Kurdistan won a prestigious international design award at a ceremony in Boston on July 9th. The hospital, which was commissioned by the Kurdistan Regional Government, will be the first in Kurdistan dedicated to the treatment of children. The vision for the children’s hospital in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region, […]
Three more maternity hospitals need to be built in Sulaimaniyah to deal with the fact that a baby is born every 35 minutes in the province, medical officials say. The Director of Sulaimaniyah's only maternity hospital, Shler Fayaq Gharib, said the province needs three more maternity hospitals to deal with the increase in births. AKnews […]
AKnews reports that an Australian company has started construction on a new 400-bed hospital in Qadisiya. The five-story hospital, costing about $135 million, will be built on an area of 6,648 square meters by the Australian Construction Company (ACA) over a period of 33 months in the provincial capital, Diwaniyah. The hospital is divided into […]
Iraq's Minister for Reconstruction and Housing, Mohammed Daraji, said a new large hospital will be constructed in Maysan [Missan] province. Daraji told AKnews that the 260-bed project has been allocated 35 billion Iraqi dinars (IDQ) [$30m] from the ministry's budget. The three-floor maternity and emergency hospital will be constructed during 2011 over an area of […]
The Chairman of future projects coordination in Karbala province, Hani al-Yasari, has confirmed that the Turkish Universal Acarsan Co. has completed the first stage of the modern hospital project in al-Herr district the province. He told NMC that the seven-floor hospital, to be built over 65 acres in 33 months, includes 492 beds initially, expanding […]
The Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, Mahmoud al-Sheikh Radhi [Mahmoud Mohammed al-Radhi], has opened a new $2.6m [3 billion Iraqi dinars] medical center for occupational illnesses in Baghdad. The center is the first of its kind in Iraq. He told AKnews that "the Ministry is seeking to build occupational medical centers in all the […]
Salahaddin [Salah ad Din] provincial council has allocated 40 billion Iraqi dinars ($34.4m) to the development of the health sector in the province. Ammar Yusuf, the deputy chairman of the council, told AKnews that they decided to allocate this amount to support the health sector, contribute to health projects and address the deficiencies that exist […]
Wasit Investment Commission has announced that it granted its first investment licence within the health sector to an Iraqi company for the construction of a private hospital at a cost of around 6.5 billion Iraqi Dinars [$5.6m]. The new 100-bed hospital is to be equipped under the supervision of engineers from the investment board and […]
The Acarsan Group, based in Gaziantep, Turkey, is set to complete the construction of five new hospitals in Iraq and hand them over to the Iraqi Health Ministry by the beginning of 2012, according to a report in Today's Zaman. In partnership with the Universal Hospitals Group network of Turkey, Acarsan won a recent tender […]
Iraq's health ministry has said it has signed an agreement with a Turkish firm to build a new hospital in the city of al-Nassiriya, Aswat al-Iraq news agency has reported. The 400-bed, $143.5m hospital will have three buildings that should comprise all medical specializations as well as 10 operation theatres, six maternity wards and training […]
