Australia provides A$4.5 in aid<\/p>\n
DENPASAR, Bali: Indonesia and Australia signed an agreement on
\nfinancial aid worth at A$4.5 million (US$2.97 million), most of
\nwhich will be used to build a new Intensive Care Center at the
\nSanglah Hospital, Denpasar.<\/p>\n
The two-story center will cost A$3.6 million, and the project
\nis expected to begin in June and be completed early in 2004.
\nAustralia and the Bali provincial health office are discussing
\nthe most effective form of the remaining A$900,000 assistance.<\/p>\n
The new Intensive Care Center will have an Intensive Care
\nUnit, an Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, and a Burns Unit. The fund
\nwill also be used to refurbish the hospital morgue.<\/p>\n
Sanglah Hospital played a major role in treating survivors and
\nkeeping the bodies of the victims in the Oct. 12, 2002 bombings
\non the resort island.<\/p>\n
Signing the agreement were managing director of the Sanglah
\nHospital, I Gusti Lanang M. Rudiartha, the head of Bali
\nprovincial health office, Made Molin Yudiasa, and Sam Zappia, the
\nAustralian Embassy Counselor for Development Cooperation.<\/p>\n
The agreement was part of a A$10.5 million package of
\nassistance to Bali committed by Australian Prime Minister John
\nHoward during his visit here on Feb. 15.<\/p>\n
Australia lost 88 of its citizens in the blasts, which killed
\n202 people, mostly foreigners. --JP<\/p>",
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