Riyadh, December 26, 2022, SPA -- Eng. Khaled bin Abdulaziz Al-Falih, Minister of Investment, patronized here yesterday, the signing of a consulting services contract between the Mauritanian Ministry of Health and Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Medical Group, which includes the management and follow-up stages of "design, development, and operation" of the King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud University Hospital project in Nouakchott, which is funded by the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) through a generous grant from the Saudi government amounting to USD55 million. The signing of the contract reflects the Kingdom's keenness to expand its investment cooperation with other countries as well as the Ministry of Investment's desire and interest in furthering its partnership with the SFD, an organization whose mission is to support development projects and programs in the developing countries while paving the way for Saudi investors to transfer and invest their global expertise and competencies in those projects. On the sidelines of his visit to the Kingdom, the Mauritanian Minister of Health met with the CEO of the Saudi Fund for Development, Sultan Al-Marshad, at the Fund's headquarters today, to discuss development issues of common interest, in addition to following up on existing development projects presented by the Kingdom's government through SFD, which aim to contribute to achieving the goals of sustainable development in Mauritania. --SPA 19:24 LOCAL TIME 16:24 GMT 0028 www.spa.gov.sa/w1832475