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President Irfaan Ali says the opening of the new multi-million Diamond Regional Hospital, will provide health care services for more than 40,000 people along the East Bank corridor.
“This is an investment that will ensure our women, children, elderly and all alike have a level of treatment that is not based on income (or) status. That is what this investment is doing: (providing) quality, efficient, equitable services. This is an investment in the people of our country,” Ali told the ceremony that was attended by Prime Minister Mark Phillips, Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo, other Cabinet members, health officials, and residents of the area,
The government said that the hospital with 75 inpatient beds as well as three operating theatres, has been constructed to meet Chinese, British, and American medical standards.
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