Theresa42
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Ministry of Health & World Bank officials tour Abbasiya Hosp in Cairo last Thursday. Rumors that the government plans to sell (privatize) the hospital ... or that the World Bank is planning to fund 500 additional beds for the hospital ....
Google-translated from Arabic:
The visit of the Commission of Health and the World Bank raises fears of hospital workers issued Abbasiya
March 27, 2007
Mohamed Al-Ahraa
Round raised by a joint committee from the Ministry of Health and Population and a delegation from the World Bank, in Abbasiya Hospital issued last Thursday, the fears of workers, fearing that the visit will be a prelude to putting the hospital up for sale, especially as the Committee had carried out a comprehensive assessment of the hospital for unknown targets.
Sources said the hospital told <Egyptian today> : that the workers of the doctors, administrators, staff warned of a hospital for privatization, affirming that they will not stand idly by until the sale of the hospital, which is located on an area of 25 acres, is the only public hospital in Cairo, which serves patients with tuberculosis [not to mention bf].
She added that Dr. Mahmoud Abdel director of the hospital, went to the Ministry of Health yesterday to see the reality of what is happening, and that the hospital administration did not find an option to calm the workers only announcement that came round to discuss the construction of a tower 500-bed medical capacity, the World Bank financed.
http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=52615&r=t
Google-translated from Arabic:
The visit of the Commission of Health and the World Bank raises fears of hospital workers issued Abbasiya
March 27, 2007
Mohamed Al-Ahraa
Round raised by a joint committee from the Ministry of Health and Population and a delegation from the World Bank, in Abbasiya Hospital issued last Thursday, the fears of workers, fearing that the visit will be a prelude to putting the hospital up for sale, especially as the Committee had carried out a comprehensive assessment of the hospital for unknown targets.
Sources said the hospital told <Egyptian today> : that the workers of the doctors, administrators, staff warned of a hospital for privatization, affirming that they will not stand idly by until the sale of the hospital, which is located on an area of 25 acres, is the only public hospital in Cairo, which serves patients with tuberculosis [not to mention bf].
She added that Dr. Mahmoud Abdel director of the hospital, went to the Ministry of Health yesterday to see the reality of what is happening, and that the hospital administration did not find an option to calm the workers only announcement that came round to discuss the construction of a tower 500-bed medical capacity, the World Bank financed.
http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=52615&r=t