The Gallup Independent reports that Indian Health Service Navajo Area spokeswoman Jenny Notah said Thursday that Congress appropriated about $218 million for projects for fiscal year 2019.
Notah says the Gallup Indian Medical Center Relocation Project in Gallup, New Mexico, which will cost more than $550 million, has been awarded $2 million for planning.
Construction projects of three outpatient facilities on the Navajo Nation received the largest allocation in 2019. Notah says construction for an outpatient facility in Dilkon, Arizona, received $59.1 million.
Notah says construction of an outpatient facility in Pueblo Pintado, New Mexico, received $87.2 million, while construction of an outpatient facility in Bodaway-Gap, Arizona, received $28.1 million.