Al-Assad inspects services, agricultural projects in Northern Syrian provinces
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday, accompanied by the prime minister Muhammad Miro and the ministers of irrigation and agriculture visited al-Hassaka province in northern Syria.
His tour covered the building project of the new national hospital which is named "martyr Bassel al-Assad" hospital, which will be put into actual investment by the beginning of 2003.
The hospital is built on an area of three hectares at a total cost of 475 million Syrian pounds. So far 94% of the project has been completed.
The president also inspected the main ring- road project in al-Qamishli, an agricultural guidance unit in Allouk village and the project of drilling wells aiming at storing the waters of al-Hassaka to provide potable water for the city of al-Hassaka. The total invested area is 39,000 hectares.
The president and his companions also visited Bassel al- Assad's martyrs project situated to the south of al-Hassaka, carried out by the general company for land reclamation to irrigate an area of 3740 hectares.
Al-Assad later met with governorate's social, religious and economic activists and urged them for continued efforts to build the country and vowed efforts to achieve set ambitious projects. He returned back to Damascus on Sunday evening.
