The disappearance of one billion dollars from the Ministry of Health because of?

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[rtl]BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nearly one trillion dinars worth of medicines and anesthetics have disappeared in the absence of government hospitals, Of citizens.[/rtl]

[rtl]According to documents obtained by the "Trend Press" copies of them, and one of them issued by the High Commission for Human Rights on 26/12/2016, to the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers / Office of the Prime Minister, and included the receipt of the Commission "appeals and information by citizens on the lack of medicines, Chronic diseases and anesthesia. "[/rtl]

[rtl]She added that teams from the UNHCR visited "hospitals of Nu'man, the city of medicine, Yarmouk, and found that there is a shortage of medicines, especially anesthesia, which led to the postponement of a large number of surgical operations for citizens."[/rtl]

[rtl]The Commission confirmed in its book "On 1/12/2016 the team went to the Office of the Minister of Health for the purpose of finding out the reasons for the shortage of drugs and anesthesia, it turns out that the Ministry of Finance did not spend the remaining part of the budget of the Ministry of Health to enable the Ministry to pay the amounts of contracts with companies to buy Drugs and Anesthetics of 2016 ".[/rtl]

[rtl]According to the document, the ministry called on the Ministry of Finance to expedite the disbursement of the contracts referred to above for the purpose of providing medicines, anesthetics and conducting operations to citizens as soon as possible.[/rtl]

[rtl]However, the other document issued by the Minister of Finance and the agency of Abdul Razzaq al-Issa in February 2017, confirms the disbursement of all the allocations of the Ministry of Health, where included the book directed by Al-Issa to the Prime Minister's Office "was necessary by us regarding the funding of drugs and anesthesia and according to the disclosures sent from Before the general company for medical supplies / Kimadia, noting that the amounts funded for the amount of $ 143 million and 597 million and 873 thousand and 851 dinars, for the year 2016.[/rtl]

[rtl]The document also confirms that "49 billion and 445 million and 4 thousand and 310 dinars, for the year 2017."[/rtl]

[rtl]According to the letter of the Minister of Finance, the Ministry of Health received full provisions for the purchase of drugs and anesthetics for 2016 and 2017, totaling trillions and 169 billion and 42 million 878 thousand and 161 dinars for the years 2016 and 2017.[/rtl]

[rtl]It is noted from the financial document that the largest amount (trillion and 119 billion dinars, equivalent to one billion dollars) was disbursed during 2016, which saw a shortage of drugs and anesthesia, and is supposed to be sufficient to secure these materials, while the document of the Office of Human Rights confirms the unavailability Medicines and anesthesia according to the visits of its field teams and citizens' complaints.[/rtl]

[rtl]In return to the document of the Minister of Finance, his ministry has vacated its responsibility from this crisis as it did not stop or delay the disbursement of funds allocated for the purchase of medicines, and transferred to the custody of the Ministry of Health responsible for providing.[/rtl]

[rtl]It should be noted that the past years, which witnessed a "skewer" in the budgets of ministries and state institutions, did not reduce the allocations of the purchase of medicines and medical supplies to the Ministry of Health as it relates to the health and life of citizens, yet "austerity" is a pretext for the "disappearance" of many medicines Especially anesthesia, and medicines for chronic diseases that are spent by hospitals and health centers.[/rtl]

[rtl]It should be noted that even in the case of delay in the disbursement of provisions for the purchase of drugs and anesthesia for 2016, the years before that the Ministry of Health received the allocations and is supposed to have a strategic storage of these essential drugs that are directly related to the lives of patients.[/rtl]

[rtl]The files of financial corruption in the Ministry of Health, especially contracts for the purchase of medicines and medical supplies, a large area in the media and the political arena, as it drains huge funds from the state budget without any significant improvement in the level of medical services and the provision of necessary medicines.[/rtl]

[rtl]The shortage of medicines for chronic diseases, anesthetics and anesthesiologists has become a major concern for sick and healthy Iraqis. Health institutions have suffered a severe shortage of these "basics" for many years, even during the period of "explosive" budgets.[/rtl]

[rtl]Despite the files of corruption that have been revealed and the deposition of those involved in the prison or their escape outside Iraq, this thorny issue and "mystery" remain unresolved, and patients continue to suffer from the need to obtain medicines.[/rtl]

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