KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan businessman Mirwais Azizi, chairman of Azizi Group, has announced plans to build a $500 million medical city in Kabul, as part of two major philanthropic and investment projects in Afghanistan.
During a one-day visit to Kabul on Thursday, Azizi said the Azizi Foundation will construct the Farashta Azizi Medical City in Police District 8, named in memory of his daughter. The 350-acre facility will include a 400-bed cancer hospital, a 200-bed maternity and gynecology hospital, an orphanage for 10,000 children, a medical university and nursing school, dormitories for students and residential facilities for doctors and faculty.
Azizi emphasized that the medical city will operate entirely as a non-profit institution, providing free healthcare and education services to underprivileged Afghans.
In addition to the medical project, Azizi announced a five-year, $10 billion investment initiative, primarily focused on energy production.
The first project under this program—a 200-megawatt solar power plant in Kabul—is set to begin construction on Friday and is expected to be completed within eight months. The broader initiative aims to establish power generation centers with a total capacity of 10,000 megawatts across Afghanistan.
A ceremony marking the occasion was attended by Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister for economic affairs, alongside business leaders, industrialists, and citizens.
