
Fiber Optic Cabling Upgrade for the British Embassy Baghdad
- Funding agency:
- FCDO
- Status:
- cancelled
- Location:
- Iraq

Rehabilitation of the Nursing Home Special Hospital (NHSH)
Prequalification
Requested Services:
Rehabilitation of an existing 192 bed Nursing Home Special Hospital (NHSH) which was originally commissioned in 1982 in the Medical City in Baghdad. The project concerns the replacement or modernisation of existing outdated systems incl. improvements to functional areas, energy efficiency, fire protection, patient safety, etc.. The hospital will get the necessary capacities to treat a greater number of patients; the primary goal, however, is the improvement of quality of the healthcare infrastructure already in place. A main goal of the project is to provide hospital services that are affordable and safe and to increase the patient flow, especially the paying middle class. Therefor refurbishment measures have been identified to be performed on the occupied, fully operational NHSH, which are:
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