Tanzania, India Set to Put up Modern Heart Hospital in Dar

Tanzania and India on 27th May 2011, signed an agreement for construction of an ultra-modern heart specialty hospital in Dar es Salaam. The hospital will be constructed at the University of Dar es Salaam near Mlimani City. The agreement signed in Dar es Salaam by President Kikwete and visiting Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. The construction would be undertaken jointly by Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Limited of India on the Indian side and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare on the Tanzanian side. Apart from heart related diseases, the hospital will be curing patients with neurosurgical, kidney and cancer diseases. India has so far trained 29 medical practitioners from Tanzania who are now able to perform open heart surgeries, and that they had so far succeeded in 155 cases. India also pledged to provide USD 190 million for water and capacity building projects. President Kikwete hailed the bilateral cooperation between Tanzania and India which, he said, had resulted in increased trade volume which currently stood at 1.1bn/- while the Indian investment in Tanzania was 1.3bn/-.