New Nursing College Financed by Saudi Arab Opens in Calicut

19 April 2013
New Delhi

Santhi Nursing College in Omassery, near Calicut, India, which was financed by Prince Sultan Charitable Foundation, Islamic Development Bank Group, and Sheikh Yousuf Abdul Latif Jameel, was opened recently in a ceremony attended by Ahmed Roomi, special envoy of the Saudi Ambassador Saud Al-Sati, and other dignitaries.

Aside from the nursing college, the IWT runs a number of philanthropic institutions including a 350-bed Santhi Hospital.Meanwhile, Ahmed Mohamad Ali, president of IDB, congratulated the IWT for its achievements in completing social projects for the local community, in a private message sent to OP Abdussalam, chairman of the trust.

The Santhi Institute of Medical Science and Research Center was inaugurated by T. Arif Ali, president of Jamaat-e-Islami in Kerala, who emphasized the role of NGOs in providing health care and education to the public at affordable rates.Zafar Javeed, convener of IDB’s central panel in Hyderabad, wished every success to IWT’s future projects, which include a medical college, an eye specialty hospital and an institute of alternate medicine and rehabilitation.

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