The financial crisis stop 444 projects in Dhi Qar, including seven hospitals and self-financing one of the solutions
2015/10/20
Dhi Qar
Revealed the health of Dhi Qar province department, on Tuesday, all stopped many health projects due to the financial crisis, including seven hospitals, and stressed that the preservation of deficit in patients family is estimated at more than 4,500 beds and a shortage of important medical staffs, and in asking the provincial council application funding system self as one of the solutions to solve the financial crisis, announced the Department of Planning stop 444 projects in the province.
The director of the engineering department at the Health Department of Dhi Qar confident Saud Abdul Aziz, in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The lagging projects in the health sector as a result of the lack of financial allocations, are multiple projects, most notably the 400-bed hospital in Nasiriyah, hospital Chabaish 100 Capacity The nymph bed hospital in the district of Shatra with a capacity of 100 beds. "
He said Abdul Aziz, said: "There are three other hospitals in the process of referral stopped forwarding procedures because of the financial crisis, which is a hospital to give birth and children with a capacity of 300 beds, the hospital Rifai 200-bed hospital Suq 200 beds," noting that "There is a project to establish a hospital in Shatra spend scheduled implemented on Japanese grant account in the process of preparing his designs. "
He pointed Abdul Aziz, that "most health projects stalled because of the financial crisis completion rates ranging between 20% and 80%," stressing that "the Turkish hospital, which cut the advanced stages of labor is also still faces a lack of funding."
And the number of hospitals and projects that were created after 2003, confirmed Abdul Aziz, said that "the number of hospitals that were created after 2003 in Dhi Qar is the development and expansion of Habboubi Hospital and the expansion of birth and the children's hospital within the Department of Health for the rehabilitation and development of the old health buildings according to plan plan taking place in parallel with the the creation of new buildings. "
He said Abdul Aziz, that "the projects that have been developed after 2003 is the center of Nasiriyah Heart Center Diabetes and Endocrinology Center Thalassemia for blood diseases and genetic bank of blood and the Center for burns and centers dental specialist, and other specialized centers," noting that "there are dozens of typical health centers and sub-stores for drugs that have been completed throughout the province of Dhi Qar. "
And Abdel Aziz, that "the deficit in clinical cover in Dhi Qar province is estimated at more than 4,500 beds," pointing out that "the number of beds in hospitals and health institutions in Dhi Qar estimated 1300 beds out of six thousand bed requires offered in accordance with the population density of the province, Nfosha estimated two million people. "
The Director of Engineering Department that "the deficit in clinical cover was supposed to be reduced within the projects adopted by the health of Dhi Qar circle plan, but the repercussions of the financial crisis has affected the implementation of the vocabulary of the plan," pointing to "the problem of lack of medical staffs, especially in the area of job competencies Kaltkhaddar and Forensic Medicine and other rare medical specialties that also affect health services. "
He promised Abdul Aziz, the number of graduates from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Dhi Qar, "is not sufficient for the needs of the province of medical staffs," pointing out that "doctors from other provinces did not like working in hospitals in the province and would prefer to work in Baghdad, Karbala and Kurdistan and other provinces that attract doctors ".
He stressed Abdul Aziz, "a reflection of lack of financial allocations on the overall health and medical services and clinical capacity and health buildings and the work of the health institutions and the maintenance and provision of medicines", noting that "the private hospitals in the province of Dhi Qar The two hospitals only two hospital spring and Hospital of Hope", returned them of "tributaries important to support the public health sector being the Asdan part of the momentum of the reviewers and Akhvvan part of the pressure on government hospitals. "
For his part, Chairman of the Health and Environment Committee in the provincial council of Dhi Qar, Abdul Amir Salem said in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The lack of funding and financial crisis has affected significantly in the provision of health services to citizens," noting that "the fiscal deficit through which the province is reflected not only on the health sector, but the overall service and development sectors that are related to the provision of services to the citizens. "
Salem added, that "the provincial council and the Department of Health is currently in the process of search for possible alternatives to address the lack of funding and the provision of financial revenues to help health institutions to continue to provide health, medical and nursing services," adding that "one of those alternatives is the possibility of the application of self-financing or software system the other, which are followed during the nineties of the last century to counter the economic blockade and the lack of financial resources, and that after the introduction of amendments required them to fit with the economic capacity of the poor segments. "
The Salem, that "the application of self-financing system will bring substantial financial resources and improve the level of health and medical services, but it remains to be applied in the health institutions in the province, subject to central decision from the federal government," calling on citizens to "support the state institutions in the face of the financial crisis."
He Salem, that "health institutions were still offering medical services expensive for citizens in exchange for 500 dinars, and it's time to help the citizen to bear part of these costs to support health institutions and improve the level of health services to be provided to him," asserting that "resort to self-financing comes to treatment severe financial crisis. "
In turn, Director of Planning and Follow-up in Dhi Qar province, Engineer Abdul Mohsen Hdab said in an interview to the (long-Presse), said that "all the province of Dhi Qar projects currently stalled due to lack of funding, including the health sector projects."
He Hdab, that "the number of the province in the process of implementation, which stopped as a result of the financial crisis of 444 projects, including 180 projects have been fully accomplished projects, but that the financial belongings remained unresolved until now because of a lack of funding," noting that "the percentage of completion in the rest of the projects ranging between 20% and 90% of which are currently stalled. "
Dozens of contractors and business owners in the province of Dhi Qar demonstrated, in (26 August 2015), in front of the governorate building to demand regardless own 2013 projects financial dues, and as pointed out that allocated to finance preservation projects do not cover 10% of the dues Contractors only money, threatened sit in the event of failure to respond to their demands.
He was the governor of Dhi Qar confirmed, in (June 14, 2015), that project funds do not cover the debt owed to the companies and contractors, and revealed that the administration of the province will adopt the mechanism adopted by the recent Council of Ministers in the payment of those debts, according to the percentages achieved in the completion of projects.
He was the governor of Dhi Qar confirmed, in (June 14, 2015), that funding for preservation projects and the plan adopted in this area require more than 800 billion dinars in general, and as pointed out that the debts due and payable on the achievements of the stages of the work of these projects requires more than 115 billion dinars.
The number of ongoing projects in Dhi Qar province, 444 projects spread over 22 sectors Khaddmaa and developmentally currently stalled because of a lack of funding.
The Council of the province of Dhi Qar, announced in the April 23, 2014, it voted unanimously to balancing regional development projects plan worth 992 billion dinars, and the promise of "the biggest budget" in the history of the province, as he emphasized it includes more than 340 projects spread over 20 sectors Khaddmaa and developmentally, However, the plan could not be implemented due to lack of approval of the federal budget for 2014.
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