Workers' hospital built

Workers' hospital built

JAKARTA: Manpower Minister Jacob Nuwa Wea laid the first cornerstone of a workers' hospital in Banda Aceh on Saturday.

"Now that the Aceh governor and the Aceh Besar district chief have made a real start to construct this hospital, we will seriously support the project," Minister Jacob said.

The hospital is located on a five-hectare plot of land in Lambaro subdistrict, Aceh Besar district, about 15 kilometers from Banda Aceh, Naggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD)'s provincial capital.

Money to cover the project's costs would come from the Workers' Social Insurance (Jamsostek) fund managed by the Manpower Ministry and from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government, Jacob said. --Antara

The local administration and his ministry still needed to agree on a mechanism to ensure the smooth disbursement of the committed funds so that the project did not have to undergo any delay because of bureaucratic hitches, he said.

Meanwhile, UAE's deputy ambassador to Indonesia, Ahmed Al Hosani, who was present at the first-corner-stone laying ceremony, said he would soon contact his government about the financial assistance it had agreed to provide for the project.