Al-Sudani: We will provide service in the health sector

INA-   AGHDAD

Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia'a Al-Sudani, announced Sunday the imminent implementation of a new vision to provide service in the health sector, while indicating work to end the phenomenon of citizens being forced to travel abroad for treatment.

 The Prime Minister said in his speech during the inauguration of Al-Sayyab Teaching Hospital in Basra.  It was attended by the reporter of the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The completion of hospitals is part of the government's priorities," noting that "the health sector comes at the forefront of its work program."

 He added, "We formed a workshop two months ago with broad powers, and its efforts resulted in ending lagging in the project and completing the hospital, as we developed a plan to complete lagging projects, and today we are opening one of the most important lagging hospitals since 2009."

 The Prime Minister affirmed, "the imminent implementation of a new vision to provide service in the health sector, which is represented by contracting with international companies to manage and operate hospitals," pointing out, "We are working to end the phenomenon of citizens being forced to travel outside Iraq for treatment, and to provide it instead inside the country."  

A statement by the Prime Minister’s Office stated that “Al-Sayyab Hospital, which has a capacity of (492) beds, consists of six floors  to serve the governorates of the southern region and the citizens of Basra Governorate.

It continued, that "the opening of the hospital comes within the directives of the Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia'a al-Sudani, in which he emphasized the completion of lagging projects, since the hospital had laid the foundation stone for it since 2009, and its completion was delayed due to financial and technical obstacles."