Minister of Planning: largest proportion of sluggish hospitals are ready to resume work

Baghdad-INA  
Minister of Planning Khalid Battal Al-Najm announced today, Tuesday, that most of the problems that were hindering the implementation of stalled and lagging hospital projects have been addressed, while noting that the largest percentage of hospitals are ready to resume work.
 
The ministry said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that "the Minister of Planning, Khalid Battal Al-Najm presided, today, held a meeting of the special committee to address the problems of lagging and stalled hospital projects, in the presence of Health Minister Hani Al-Aqabi."
 
During the meeting, the minister stressed that "the committee, through great and painstaking work, was able to address most of the problems that were impeding the implementation of stalled and lagging hospital projects," noting that "these hospitals have different clinical capacities, some of them have a capacity of 400 beds and others have 200 beds and 100 beds."
 
He pointed out that "the largest part of hospitals are ready to resume work in them, in addition to completing some of them and entering the stage of receiving and operating," expecting that "the next year 2022 will witness the entry of a number of hospitals into service, which will improve the level of health and medical services provided to citizens, especially with the presence of advanced centers for the treatment of oncological diseases, attached to these hospitals.”