RIYADH, 23 March 2007 — The Kingdom will build a hospital in Jamia Millia Islamia campus in New Delhi at a cost of around SR2 million. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in New Delhi between Saudi Ambassador to India Saleh Al-Ghamdi and Jamia Millia Vice Chancellor Mushirul Hasan, according to information received from New Delhi yesterday.
Spread over three floors, the state-of-the-art facility will have multispecialty treatment rooms, rehabilitation center, X-ray rooms, emergency first aid, pharmacy and dining and lounge for the medical staff. It will also have a mini operation theater.
The agreement marks a high point in the growing relations between the two countries across a broad spectrum of commercial, economic, educational, healthcare and other areas.
Welcoming the agreement, India’s Ambassador M.O.H. Farook told Arab News that it was a major development in the bilateral relations, which recently moved a notch up with the Saudi government’s decision to send 138 Saudi students to India for higher studies.
“According to the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding, the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia shall provide Rs.22.5 million (around SR2 million) in financial assistance toward the construction of a building for the King Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz Health Center. The fund will be handed over to JMI in four phases, according to the progress of the work,” university chief information officer Rakshanda Jaleel said.
Referring to the agreement, Jaleel said: “Our existing health center was too small and this new hospital would cater to the needs of over 6,000 students and staff of the university. The blueprint is ready and construction of the building is going to start shortly. It will be completed within a year.”
