Prime Minister: We have addressed all administrative and financial obstacles preventing the completi

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani confirmed, on Saturday, that the Council of Ministers has addressed all the administrative and financial obstacles and complications that prevent the completion of hospital projects through a series of decisions, while directing the provision of financial allocations for the second phase of the rehabilitation of the Yarmouk Hospital Complex.

The Prime Minister's Media Office said in a statement seen by "Al-Eqtisad News" that "Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani inaugurated the emergency building at Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital, after its reconstruction and rehabilitation. His Excellency toured the corridors of the building, during which he was briefed on the comprehensive rehabilitation operations and the modern medical devices that the emergency department was equipped with." 

The statement added that "Al-Sudani blessed all the efforts made to rehabilitate the building and departments," stressing "the completion of the first phase at Al-Yarmouk Hospital through the rehabilitation of the emergency department. He also appreciated the efforts of Baghdad Governorate in supporting these projects."

Al-Sudani explained that "the second phase of the rehabilitation process will target the fractures, internal medicine, surgery, consulting and burns departments in this hospital, which represents a miniature medical city, directing the provision of financial allocations for the second phase of rehabilitation so that the entire Al-Yarmouk Hospital complex appears in a decent and good manner."

Al-Sudani stressed - according to the statement - that "the health sector represents the most important service sectors provided by the government, and that any service can be delayed, except for the health service, in which the challenges are still great, in the field of infrastructure."

The statement continued, "During the tour, Al-Sudani met with the hospital staff, including doctors, who listened to the most important details of their work and the obstacles to performing their duties, and directed to provide all the requirements to facilitate their provision of service in the hospital." 

The statement continued, "Work on the rehabilitation of the Yarmouk Hospital emergency building began in October of last year, and included the restoration of all emergency joints, systems and infrastructure, the rehabilitation of 7 major operating rooms and minor operating rooms with modern specifications, the completion of an integrated medical gas system, and the addition of 30 additional beds to bring the total bed capacity to more than 107 beds, as the building includes a surgical emergency hall and another internal emergency hall, a pulmonary resuscitation hall with a capacity of 18 beds, a pharmacy, a laboratory and a blood bank, and the building was equipped with resonance, CT and X-ray devices, a modern monitoring system and other services." 

During the inauguration of the emergency building at Yarmouk Hospital, the Prime Minister stressed, "With the beginning of the government's work, and urgently, we started to rehabilitate hospitals with the participation of service effort teams," indicating that "the first phase of rehabilitation provided a new reality that citizens and our medical staff can see, to enable them to deal with the large population density in Baghdad."

He pointed out that "Yarmouk Hospital is the hub for providing health services in the Karkh side of Baghdad, and is witnessing great pressure," explaining, "We focused on completing hospital projects, and we have 8 projects under construction in Baghdad Governorate."

Al-Sudani said, "We started receiving major hospitals in the governorates (capacity 499 beds)," indicating, "We moved to the first model of operation with joint management, and the first launch from Najaf Al-Ashraf." 

He stressed that "the different capabilities of citizens will be taken into account in the joint operation model, in providing various treatments and receiving specialized doctors," adding, "We addressed in the Council of Ministers - and through a series of decisions - all the administrative and financial obstacles and complications that prevent the completion of hospital projects." 

He continued, "The Ministry of Health is moving forward to change the philosophy of health care by implementing the health insurance law, which represents an important shift that will change the form of service," noting that "a large percentage of citizens go outside Iraq for treatment, which costs the state huge amounts of hard currency and is exhausting for the citizen."

He added, "There are countries that do not have resources that are moving towards establishing hospitals and medical centers to support their budgets as a type of economic expansion," noting that "the doctors' house must be prepared in a professional and decent manner that suits the tasks entrusted to them."