Mexico to Repair Damaged Hospitals
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY —
The government’s Social Security Institute announced a $20-million project to repair hospitals damaged in the September earthquake and construct new ones.
The institute’s director, Ricardo Garcia Sainz, said the money from the National Reconstruction Fund will be used to restore essential medical services curtailed by the quake.
He listed repairs on 124 hospitals and clinics, completion of seven regional medical facilities elsewhere in Mexico.
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