Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday urged the Agha Khan Foundation (AKF) to help improve the state-run Jamhooriat Hospital to international standards.
Chinese engineers destroyed the old building of the hospital in 2006 and constructed a 10-storey structure with 350 beds at a cost of about US$25 million.
Despite its completion last year, the new building has yet to be inaugurated.
At a meeting with Feroz Rasoul, chancellor of the Agha Khan University in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, and Karim Agha Khan’s envoy to Afghanistan Ali Moji, the president raised the issue.
Karzai said the hospital should be at international standards to address the problems of Afghans, who take their patients to neighbouring countries for medical treatment.
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