The second phase of a key UAE-funded military hospital in Pakistan has been completed.

The Pakistani-Emirati Military Hospital is being built in Rawalpindi, located in Punjab province near Islamabad, at a cost of US$108 million (Dh397m).

It is one of the projects under way in Pakistan under the directives of President Sheikh Khalifa, reported Wam, the state news agency.

The UAE’s Project to Assist Pakistan, established to implement humanitarian and development projects in the country, said that the hospital will be equipped to perform about 50 major surgical operations per day.

When completed, it will have 1,000 beds and 16 fully-equipped surgical theatres. The hospital is funded by the Project to Assist Pakistan, the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development and the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation.

The projects are also supported by Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs.

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