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DUBAI
Qatar has cut its planned spending on building healthcare facilities by about two-thirds this year following the drop in energy prices but expenditure on its World Cup-related projects should be unchanged, an official said on Wednesday.
"Due to the recent oil and gas price drop, the government has to restructure, re-plan its priorities," said Ahmad al Ansari, lead advisor for contracts and project management at Public Works Authority (Ashghal).
"We (Ashghal) haven't cancelled any of our programmes. All we've done is extended them. We've slowed down a little bit on the number of projects released this year."
Ashghal is responsible for planning, design, construction and delivery of all infrastructure projects and public buildings in Qatar.
It aims to build 60-70 new primary healthcare centres over the next decade. This year, it was meant to award contracts to build seven of these but that number has been cut to three, said Ansari."We're hoping within the next year to stick to our original plan, which is to award (contracts to build) at least eight health centres every year," Ansari told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Dubai.
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