Emirates funds floating hospital in Dhaka
- United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, November 25 - 2008 at 09:37
The Emirates Friendship Hospital Ship, a charity venture funded by the Emirates Airline Foundation has been officially inaugurated in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The ship will ply approximately 250 kilometres along the River Bhramaputra north of the country and serve over three million people living on more than 400 small islands and on the river banks. The mobile hospital ship is equipped with chambers for doctors, primary health care facilities, two operating theatres, two eight-bed wards, paediatric and gyaencology units, a dental room, a pathological laboratory, an X-ray room and an ophthalmic room.
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