Damascus-Sana
The People's Assembly, in its thirteenth session of the first ordinary session of the third legislative session, held today under the chairmanship of Hammouda Sabbagh, Speaker of the Assembly, discussed the performance of the Ministry of Health and issues related to its work.
In his speech at the beginning of the session, the Minister of Health, Dr. Hassan Al-Ghobash, referred to the measures taken to address the Corona pandemic, including the adoption of laboratories to conduct a PCR analysis for Corona more frequently in the governorates of Aleppo, Homs, Lattakia, and Jdeidet Yabous al-Houdi center. A laboratory will also be established in Tartous pointing to the issuance of a circular to implement financial sanctions against pharmacies. Violation instead of closure due to its economic and social effects on pharmacists and citizens.
The Minister of Health stated that work is underway to activate the incentive system for working, socializing and at-risk health cadres, and an emergency room has been established in the ministry to deal with Corona patients and the creation of an emergency hospital in Al-Fayhaa Sports City to provide oxygen support to Corona victims during crises in cooperation with the Sports Federation and we seek to establish a similar hospital in Aleppo Then, moving to the rest of the governorates in anticipation of a second wave of the pandemic.
In their interventions, some members of the Council called for intensifying the Ministry’s control over hospitals and private laboratories that receive exorbitant wages from citizens, and working seriously to reduce these wages and to coordinate with the Finance to review income taxes imposed on private hospitals, support wages and incentives for doctors, reduce drug prices and facilitate the work of pharmaceutical laboratories. The restoration of the National Hospital in Homs, the improvement of the health centers in the liberated countryside of Raqqa, the creation of a department for the treatment of tumors in the Deir Ezzor hospital, the consideration of doctors who died in the Corona epidemic as martyrs, and the re-commitment to health and medical institutes and nursing colleges, noting that there are complaints from citizens related to the lack of medical beds and competitors in government hospitals and demands to rehabilitate the hospital The National Authority in Aleppo, reactivating the health centers in the liberated areas, creating a burn department in the Salmiya and Al-Ghab centers, and completing the requirements of Safita Hospital.
A number of members stressed the need to tighten control over analyzes and drug prices, secure anesthesia, ophthalmic drugs, and cancer, and re-examine the pricing of medical services, with the need not to limit the insurance of medical equipment to the Ministry of Health and allow the import of used medical devices and overcome difficulties in front of securing corneas and reduce their prices, calling for health insurance for workers in transporting Medical waste, including all workers in hospitals and health centers, in the reward given to doctors and nurses who were in the first line in dealing with the Coronavirus and restarting the medical services in the outpatient clinics of Qatana Hospital after it was transferred to an isolation center.
In his response to the interventions, the Minister of Health affirmed that the distribution of hospitals and health centers needs to be reviewed and evaluated, and the Ministry seeks to provide health services within the available capabilities. As for health insurance, it is the subject of study and coordination with the Finance and other parties and there are important medical projects that will be opened soon in Aleppo indicating that a surgery department cannot be licensed An open heart without a license, an internal cardiac department in hospitals, and there is a study to reopen Khazna Hospital in Tartous countryside, indicating that the ministry is working to grant great incentives to stop the migration of doctors with a severe shortage of doctors, especially anesthesia and radiology specialties, and we are working to distribute the medical personnel in a balanced manner, indicating that there is difficulty In providing dialysis machines and automatic respirators for Corona patients, but the health situation is safe and reassuring to date.
He indicated that private hospitals cannot be excluded from government support due to the need for their services, and at the same time they need greater control. The Ministry also provides support to the Pearl Hospital in Hasaka, pointing out that there is a joint committee with the Federation of Trade Unions that will study the minimum pricing of medical services in public agencies, explaining that it is not possible. The Ministry has the right to pay 50 percent of the cost of cardiac networks in the current circumstances and seeks to expand the incubators in Abaza Hospital in Kenitra, pointing out that the problem in Salhab Hospital in Hama countryside is engineering related to construction, and how the optimal investment of this drug must be studied.
The session, which was attended by Minister of Communications and Technology, Engineer Iyad Al-Khatib, and the State for People's Assembly Affairs, Malloul Al-Hussein, rose to 12 o'clock noon on Sunday, the 15th of this month.
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