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GfK Funds Hospital, Honours Tsunami Victim
Building work is beginning on a new hospital in Kalkudah, eastern Sri Lanka, financed by donations from GfK staff, management and suppliers, and named after Heinrich A. Litzenroth, the Management Board member who lost his life in the tsunami last December.
Kalkudah is twinned with GfK's home town of Nuremberg, and the German city has launched and partly completed a series of projects in the Kalkudah region, which was badly hit by the tsunami. The Heinrich A. Litzenroth Memorial Ward District Hospital will have between 80 and 100 beds on two storeys and is being financed by donations totalling EUR 300,000 given by the employees and Management Board of GfK and suppliers working with GfK.
The facility will be expanded in the future into a district hospital serving the medical care of around 125,000 people in Kalkudah and its environs, and replaces a medical facility in Kalkudah, which was completely destroyed by the tsunami. The building work is scheduled to be completed in nine to ten months.
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