Constructions starts on 180-bed hospital in Kigali Province

Construction has started in Kigali Province on a US $3.5-million hospital with a 180-bed capacity, the government announced on Monday. Most of the funding, it said, had come from the Belgian government, with the government of Rwanda contributing $350,000. The Rwandan government said that the hospital, at Kibagabaga in the Kacyiru District of the province, would take 16 months to build. President Paul Kagame laid the foundation stone at the construction site on Monday. The government said the 8,500-square-metre hospital would stand on five hectares of land; housing two children's wards, a male and a female ward, a maternity ward, an AIDS ward, an out-patients clinic, an administrative block and a mortuary. When completed the hospital, scheduled to be equipped with a range of modern medical equipment, would bring to three the number of such government facilities in the province.