Tag - architecture

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment Ministry wants to gazette the old Queen Elizabeth II Hospital building here as a state heritage treasure. The ministry’s permanent secretary, Datu Rosmadi Datu Sulai, said: “We intend to gazette the structure this year. “It was built a long time ago. “Once gazetted, we can provide special care for the building and ensure that it will be around for future generations to see its British colonial architecture for themselves,” he said at the launch of the North Borneo Classic Medical Assets exhibition at the state museum here today. The exhibition, which is on throughout the month, features 287 classic medical and non-medical assets from health facilities under the Sabah Health Department. Datu Rosmadi said the ministry had proposed to hold the exhibition for an expanded period as many of the medical equipment were no longer in use. “Sabah is the earliest state to use modern medical apparatus. We have (the old) devices in our keeping that can be put on public display. “Such an exhibition will become a tourist attraction and be a source of research materials for university students.” Source: New Straits Times