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Press Release20 April 2020Siemens AGBaiji,
Iraq
Siemens, Lions and their partners inaugurate the rehabilitated health clinic in Baiji, Iraq
Iraq’s Ministry of Health has repaired
Al-Tawheed Center, which was damaged by Islamic State militants, and the clinic
is fully renovated and equipped to provide much-needed medical care to
residents of the province, approximately 200km north of Baghdad.
Siemens
donated equipment including a digital x-ray, a dental treatment center,
state-of-the-art laboratory equipment including a hematology blood analyzer, a
power transformer and other devices to Lions Foundation Germany, which carried
out the rehabilitation in cooperation with Lions Club Amman Philadelphia of
Jordan. The center started accepting patients earlier this year and has the
capacity to treat about 15,000 people a year.
“Siemens has a long relationship with the
city of Baiji and its people, and this clinic is a testament to our focus on
delivering, together with our Iraqi and international partners, significant improvements
to the country’s critical infrastructure, from reliable electric power to high-quality
healthcare,” said Musab Alkateeb, CEO, Siemens in Iraq.
After the
arrival and installation of the donated equipment at PHC Baiji last year, Siemens
provided training to clinic staff to use the state-of-the-art medical equipment
and supporting systems. Lions will monitor usage over the next three years.
“This
health clinic demonstrates our commitment to the Iraqi people, and we are proud
of our partnership with the Lions from Amman Philadelphia, Iraq’s Ministry of
Health and Siemens that helped return this important facility to the
community,” said Dr. Wolf-Rüdiger Reinicke, Past Council Chair of Lions Germany.
“We were encouraged that the smart clinic was completed on schedule, and we are
devoted to our role in helping it run smoothly and providing the best services
possible to all residents in the area.”
Siemens has been working in Baiji for
almost 20 years, since the company delivered power generation turbines that
helped run the country’s biggest refinery, a concrete plant and thousands of
homes in the province. That power plant was also damaged, and in September, Siemens
and Orascom Construction signed an agreement with Iraq’s Ministry of
Electricity to rebuild Baiji 1 and Baiji 2 plants in northern Iraq. The facilities
will have a combined generation capacity of 1.6 gigawatts when completed and
are a major step in Siemens roadmap for rebuilding Iraq's power sector that has already added more
than 700 megawatts to Iraq’s grid.
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