Duplex awarded MVR 123M project to build Ihavandhoo Hospital

Local construction company, Duplex Pvt. Ltd. has been awarded a MVR 123.3 million project to build a hospital in HA. Ihavandhoo.

The agreement was signed Monday.

Under the project, Duplex will build a 30-bed hospital in Ihavandhoo with an accommodation building and a services building.

The project is financed by the Bank of Maldives (BML).

Duplex is required to complete the project within 18 months.

The northern island of Ihavandhoo currently has a health center with limited facilities.

Ihavandhoo Council’s president Ahmed Sabah told Sun that while the health center has the equipment to provide scanning services, it is unable to provide the service due to lack of a specialist doctor.

“Doctors from Hoarafushi visit each month. And then we get this service. This island has a lot of patients and a lot of expectant mothers. But we are unable to provide this service to them,” he said.

Sabah said that the opening of a hospital in Ihavandhoo is a long-held dream of the island’s residents.