Rp 12b of projects to be officiated

MAUMERE, East Nusa Tenggara: President Soeharto is due to inaugurate three government projects worth over Rp 12 billion ($1.5 million) in the near future, an official said yesterday.

Deputy Governor Piter Alexander Tallo said the projects in the Sikka regency comprise legislative council offices worth Rp 1 billion, a market, Rp 2.3 billion, and a hospital, Rp 9.4 billion.

The hospital project in Maumere will replace the hospital destroyed in a December 1992 earthquake, which killed over 2,000 people and destroy thousands of houses.

Built on a five hectare plot of land, it is designed to be the largest and most modern hospital on the Flores island.

Tallo said the local government was training medical personnel and administrative workers for the hospital. (yac)