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The Chinese-funded Parakou Army Instruction Hospital was inaugurated on February 13, 2011, and started its clinical activities on October 4, 2011 after a phase 1 construction costing 6 billion CFAF (see Record ID#34144). In order to improve the functioning of the said hospital and to improve its equipment, the Chinese government had offered an additional 11.5 million yuan or 920 million CFA francs for the second phase in April 2013, which allowed the construction of the water tower, the canteen, housing for duty guards, etc (see Record ID#72795). The Parakou Military Instruction Hospital was then officially handed over on Thursday, April 3, 2014. After this second phase, the government decides to provide medical equipment in the form of a donation for an amount of 10 million yuan or 800 million CFA francs to the hospital in Parakou. This equipment will help improve the services of the said hospital for the benefit of the populations of Parakou and the surrounding area. Located in the Okédama district on the edge of the interstate road, it is a set of four groups of buildings on two levels arranged in a "U" and connected to each other. This set is made up of three blocks: an administrative block comprising the management and its components and an amphitheater with 256 seats; a medical-technical unit with many units: medicine, surgery, maternity, odontostomatology, emergencies, radiology services, biomedical analysis laboratory, a complex of three operating theaters, a research and fight center against malaria and a laundry room; a technical unit comprising a generator with a power of 550 KVA, a water tower with a capacity of 50,000 liters, a canteen with 100 places, a guardhouse building, a mortuary and an electrical technical room and incinerator.