Dar es Saalam, March 20 -- Access to quality healthcare at close proximity continues to receive new impetus with the construction of 67 new district hospitals countrywide during the current financial year, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa, revealed yesterday.
Construction of the health facilities is meant to reduce sufferings and long distances, mostly covered by rural residents, in accessing health services which require sophisticated treatment such as surgeries, he stated.
The premier pledged further that the fifth phase government was committed to construct more district hospitals and health centres in the next fiscal year as well as renovating existing health facilities across the country.
Mr Majaliwa made the remarks here yesterday du...