Princess Zahra Aga Khan & the government of Tanzania inaugurate new State-of-the-Art Laboratory and Low Cost Inpatient Unit at the Aga Khan Hospital Dar es Salaam

Source: Aga Khan Development Network

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Princess Zahra Aga Khan and Dr. Dorothy Gwajima, Acting Director of Curative Services at the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children today jointly opened a new state-of-the-art laboratory and a low cost inpatient unit at the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam.

Additional and expanded facilities within the hospital are being established as part of the Phase 2 Expansion of the hospital alongside the on-going construction of the new 14,000 sq. metre wing. The total cost of the expansion is approximately US$ 80 million, which includes a Tzs 120 billion (US$53.5million) loan facility from the French Development Agency Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) and a Tzs 60 billion (US$ 26.3 million) grant from the Aga Khan Development Network.

Read more – Dated: 8 June 2017

 

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