MP pledges to build US$5m hospital in northern island
An opposition MPhas pleged to spend US$5million on upgrading a healthpost to a hospital in the island of Fokaidhoo in northern Shaviyani Atoll.
16 Mar 2016, 9:00 AM
An opposition MP has pleged to spend US$5million on upgrading a healthpost to a hospital in the island of Fokaidhoo in northern Shaviyani Atoll.
MP Ahmed Nashid, the owner of ADK group, which runs the private ADK hospital in Male, is building a 30-bed hospital in Fokaidhoo.
Abdulla Faiz, the managing director of ADK Trade and Shipping, said: “This hospital will also have an ICU, scanning equipment and operation theatres as well.”
Fokaidhoo council has leased a plot of 40,000 squarefeet to the company for 50 years. The hospital is to be completed within three years. Faiz said the hospital is a pledge made by Nashid, the Maldivian Democratic Party MP for the Komandoo constituency.
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