(Range) dialogue with the Department of Health of the province .. The scarcity of medicine threatens

(Range) dialogue with the Department of Health of the province .. The scarcity of medicine threatens patients in Babylon


 Babylon / Iqbal Mohammed

The Health Department of Babel acknowledged the lack of medical services in all its institutions as a result of the financial crisis affecting Iraq. While many of its institutions in the province have been exposed to lack of medicine and therapeutic supplies, the local health committee described the deteriorating health situation.  

"There is a lack of provision of services in all state institutions, including health institutions, because of the crisis and the financial crisis experienced by Iraq, which affected the provision of services," the director of Babel Health Department Dr. Nawras Abdul Razzaq al-Kasbi told Al-Mada.
"We are service institutions that provide health services to all the people of Babylon through more than 15 hospitals and dozens of health centers throughout the province." He attributed the shortage of some medicines and health supplies to the financial crisis in Iraq which led to the lack of funds To provide services.
"The Iraqi Ministry of Health suffers from a lack of funds allocated to it and reflected on the provision of services despite the establishment of the ministry to find outlets to provide services and the provision of medicines," and revealed that "
The General Company for medicines and health supplies of the Ministry of Health, which is responsible for the distribution of medicines has been reduced amounts allocated to a quarter and this also reflected negatively on the provision of medicines. " He called on the central government to allocate sufficient amounts to the vital sector concerned with human health and safety, adding that" financial resources collected from citizens in hospitals and health centers during their review of them are now back to our circle and is also not plugged only a little of the expenses. "
He pointed out that" there are ministerial instructions not to buy drugs from the market only if they are examined and well- known commercial origin and that many of the drugs in Wallace It is less checked non - commercial origin unknown , so we can not afford to buy. "
He stressed that"
Despite the difficult conditions and lack of medicines and medical supplies passing through our health institutions, but we did not stop providing health services of all kinds, including the various surgical operations and the increase of specialized medical centers and consultancies that receive thousands of reviewers, "explaining that" the Ministry of Health considered Babylon from the first provinces of Iraq Which provides health services. "He explained that it was recently approved to equip three recovery equipment to meet the shortage in the recovery unit at the hospital Hilla surgical," The reason not to use the recovery unit in Al-Sadiq hospital as a substitute is that the receipt of the equipment is still All initial and not integrated and use means the loss of the terms of the contract and the most important period of the warranty, "noting that"
Imam Sadiq Hospital, which opened in the ninth month of last year, which was received initially with more than 2000 modern medical devices can not operate devices only after the company executing the hospital training medical and health staff on the devices and this within a contract signed between the Ministry of Health and the Turkish company implemented " The director of the Health Department in Babylon," There is a crisis in the number of anesthetists in Iraq, not only in Babylon, and that the number available barely fills the work in the current hospitals and the horizontal expansion requires the deployment of additional staff, and work is serious and continuous to address this situation To provide PVC Meh medical best for the people of the province of Babylon. "
He added that" Imam Sadiq Hospital , which opened a few months ago , a large hospital working on the opening of all divisions and floors under a plan developed by the Ministry of Health and the Department of Health in the province and that the subject of investment in it is the duty of the Ministry of Health and local government. "
He said: "Approval has been obtained for the establishment of three cooperative centers, including pharmacies and laboratories at cooperative prices, which will contribute to the provision of medical treatment and examination at moderate prices that will contribute to alleviating the suffering of the citizen and providing funds to sustain the work of the health institutions in the governorate. The centers will be opened in Hilla Surgical Complex, Morjan Medical and the third in the area of ​​Jibla north of Babylon, and the Ministry has agreed to establish the three centers, which will include pharmacies working over the 24 hours and laboratories of different disciplines provide medical services for amounts far below the usual in the centers of the private sector, Q We are also expanding to include all existing health institutions and Balaqdah aspects in order to provide medicines and prices cooperative. "
Al-Kasbi revealed " We have put forward a vision and idea to the Ministry of Health to bring medical delegations specialized and integrated with medical services from India and Turkey to carry out operations for patients from the people of Babylon instead of traveling abroad and pay very high costs of travel, the operation is a choice and not forced to those who can, The second is after the Ibn Sina Hospital, which is implemented in Iraq and according to the law of clinics and special clinics after a committee of the ministry visited Babylon and to see the new Imam Sadiq Hospital and decided to conduct operations on the fifth and sixth floors of heart patients and cancer and other
B of Turkey and India " He pointed out that" The Department of Health of Babel pays special attention to financial conditions in cooperation with the International Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontières to develop new units and new health projects and rehabilitate some of the old projects in order to improve the infrastructure of the Department's institutions to accommodate the growing demand for health services. The medical and health movement at different levels has been opened. The operation halls, the emergency unit and the new oxygen system have been opened at Musayyib General Hospital after being rehabilitated by the Red Cross and supervised by the engineering cadres in the The center was established on an area of ​​850 square meters and with a completion period of 219 days and includes more than 15 years of service. A health unit carried out by a company
The project was carried out by the International Committee of the Red Cross and under the supervision of the Department of Health of Babylon and it is hoped to provide primary health care services to more than 20 thousand inhabitants of the region, including the displaced. " The head of the Health Committee in the province of Babylon, Dr. Heba Al-Qarghouli told Al-Mada that "the deterioration of the health situation in Babylon and the great suffering of the sick visitors to the health institutions because of the lack of the presence of medicines and health supplies such as the lawlessness, as well as the absence of food and water for patients and the disruption of important devices such as recovery.
" In m Council of Representatives and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and all those interested in the health situation to intervene rapidly to lift the health situation in the province of deterioration and that there are many complaints about the subject up to the Health Committee. "
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