The new facility, to be built on 4,000 sq m, will provide health services to the over 250,000 inhabitants of the 9 nearby communes, of which seven are rural.

    The hospital will be completed in 18 months with a total bed capacity of 45 beds. It will include departments for general health services, general surgery, pediatrics, delivery, gynaecologist and obstetrician, emergency, in addition to a radiology department, a laboratory and a pharmacy.