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The previously stalled 400-bed Al-Hurriya hospital project in Baghdad has achieved 55 percent completion rate and is expected to open by the end of 2024, the official spokesperson for Iraq’s Ministry of Planning said.
Abdul Zahra Al -Hindawi told Zawya Projects that the project spans a land area of 22 acres, and is being built a total cost of 180 billion Iraqi dinars ($123.3 million), adding that it will serve Al-Hurriya, Kadhimiya and surrounding areas.
The hospital consists of an eight-storey main building, a 5-storey residential building for doctors, an educational building, a 4-storey laboratory building and 3-storey emergency building.
(Reporting by Majda Muhsen; Editing by Anoop Menon)
