AKIPRESS.COM - A hospital complex for border defense and law enforcement officers at Military Unit No. 27 of the General Staff of the Mongolian Armed Forces opened on March 24, The UB Post reports.

The hospital’s construction started in 2011 and was expected to be commissioned by 2013. The executors of the project said that the three-year delay in completion was due to financial problems. The complex consists of three blocks. Block A is dedicated to in patients, Block B is an ambulatory, and Block C consists of a water healing center and a gym.

“The opening of the complex allows our hospital to continue operation in a new environment with modern technology. The new hospital is equipped with new, advanced technology and equipment. We obtained hospital equipment and X-ray apparatuses worth 17 billion togrog (around US$8.3 mln) with a soft loan through a memorandum signed by the Mongolian and Austrian governments. We’ve connected the equipment here. We have also prepared our staff to use the equipment. We will move into this building after we renew the furniture and beds in the hospital,” said the director of the hospital complex.

Minister of Defense and MP Tserendash Tsolmon said: “Our military hospital must treat a wide range of patients, from regular soldiers to the president... The hospital has poison control services and treats injuries caused by various weapons, including guns and knives in Ulaanbaatar, and they conduct emergency surgeries on Bayanzurkh and Nalaikh district residents.”

The military hospital first opened in 1921 to provide free healthcare services to military personnel and the public. The hospital treated soldiers during the Battles of Khalkh in Gol in 1939 and Liberation War in 1945.