Chinese Government provides grant to expand the University Hospital in Sfax (Linked to Project ID#30323)

On October 8, 2019, China signed an exchange of letters with Tunisia for a feasibility study for the expansion of the University Hospital in Sfax. The prime minister of Tunisia, Youssef Chahed, stated that China would provide a second donation for the expansion of the hospital; the first donation referring to the grant provided by China to Tunisia to build the hospital, captured in linked project ID#30323. The value of the grant for the expansion project is unclear. Chinese Ambassador to Tunisia Wang Wenbin and Tunisian Acting Minister of Health Sonia Ben Sheikh signed on behalf of the two governments at the Prime Minister's Office of Tunisia. According to the Tunisian prime minister, the hospital's extension would include a large-scale surgical center, and construction was to start during the first half of 2020. The inauguration ceremony for the original hospital building (#30323), however, did not occur until December 2020 due to COVID-19-related complications, so it is unclear if this timeline was honored.

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