In the context of the strong relation between China and Sudan, the government of China is to build a large-scale hospital in the Blue Nile State, a local official announced on Monday.
The minister of health in the state Ali Mohammed Idriss, told reporters that the construction of the hospital, which is to occupy an area of 20,000 m2, with a hundred 100 beds capacity, its construction is scheduled to start early next year 2009, and it would be completed in span of one year.
The minster said that the hospital would be named "the Hospital of the Chinese Sudanese Friendship."
"This is a precious present from China to the local people in the Blue Nile State, and we express our extreme thanks and appreciation for the Chinese government's donation,".
At a ceremony held in the Sudanese Federal Ministry of Health in Khartoum, a document on the construction of the hospital was signed by Idriss and Huang Jin, the director of the Overseas Project Department of the China Urban Construction Design and Research Institute.
Chinese Ambassador to Sudan Li Chengwen and Undersecretary of the Sudanese Federal Ministry of Health Kamal Abdu al-Gadir attended the signing ceremony.
