DOHA: Qatar plans to build a huge medical city in Yemen at a cost of $280m. It will be called Hamad Medical City.
The plan for the proposed medical city was disclosed during a meeting between the Yemeni Public Health and Population Minister, Ahmed Al Ansi, and the Assistant Secretary General for Policy Affairs at the Supreme Council of Health, Faleh Mohamed Hussein, in Yemen yesterday.
Hussein is on an official visit to Yemen along with a team working on the medical city project, which will come up in the Taiz governorate. During the meeting, Al Ansi and Hussein reviewed the outcome of a visit by a Qatari task force on the Hamad Medical City project to Taiz governorate and its meetings with the local authorities.
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