President inaugurates US$140m hospital tower project
President Abdulla Yameen laid the foundation for a National Diagnostic Centre at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Malé at a groundbreaking ceremony Sunday night.
07 Jun 2016, 9:00 AM
President Abdulla Yameen laid the foundation for a National Diagnostic Centre at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Malé at a groundbreaking ceremony Sunday night.
The US$140 million project for the construction of a 25-storey hospital tower was awarded to Singapore’s Chang Hua without an open bidding process last March.
In his remarks at the ceremony, Yameen said he was informed that sheet piling for the building would begin later that night.
“So God willing we will be getting a very tall building that that houses a modern, state-of-the-art diagnostic centre as well as numerous other facilities,” he said, adding that it would become the tallest skyscraper in the country.
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