Kidney diseases center to be built in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Sept. 20 (Iraqi News) – A member of Baghdad’s provincial council on Saturday said that the council agreed to construct a new center for kidney diseases within Baghdad’s Medical City, with a capacity of 200 beds and a total cost of 40 billion Iraqi dinars. “The center aims at receiving large number of patients that some hospitals could not receive them,” Kamil al-Shebebi, head of the council’s economic committee, told IraqiNews.com – Voices of Iraq – (Iraqi News). “The center will be devoted for patients who suffer kidney diseases, in addition to studying different cases related to this filed to develop methods to treat them,” he said. MH (P)/SR 1