Officials commission China-funded hospital

KICUKIRO - Health Minister Richard Sezibera and the Chinese Ambassador to Rwanda, Sun Shuzong, yesterday lay a stone foundation at a site in Masaka Sector, Kicukiro District, where a multi-million hospital funded by the People’s Republic of China will be constructed. Ground  work has already begun for the ultra-modern health facility which will have 100-patients beds, provide outpatient and inpatient services as well as an Anti-Malaria research centre. The Polyclinic which will also boast of an ambulance department, a mortuary and an incinerator is expected to be completed in two years. The hospital will be an addition to the few referral hospitals in the country.