AMMAN — Deputising for Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Minister of State for Public Sector Modernisation Nasser Shraideh on Thursday laid the foundation stone for the Kingdom Health project. 

The project is the first in the healthcare sector by the Saudi Jordanian Investment Company (SJIC), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), according to a SJIC statement.

The ceremony to launch construction works for the $400-million investment project was held at the construction site near Ghamadan, south of Amman, and was attended by several ministers and high-ranking officials, as well as the ambassadors of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom.