Egypt: Luxor - Governor complains to Dir. of Health Affairs in Luxor on poor conditions - to no avail

Close laboratory tests Armant island for over a year
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 - 08:38

Appealed to the people of the island of Armant Luxor, Dr Samir Farag, Governor of Luxor attention only health unit in the island and that what he saw as the islanders from the gross negligence of the Directorate of Health Affairs to health unit, and the increase in poor condition, and that even though a number of complaints to the Directorate of Health Affairs in Luxor, but to no avail .

Badawi said Mr. Ahmed Abdul-Samad, Member of the Board of the Center for Qurnah local health unit to be closed and without a doctor since early December last year until mid-January this year, adding that before that period, the doctor is at all times.

He adds that a member of local laboratory tests Supplement Health Unit has been closed since more than a year since the Decree No. 323 of 2008 and the annexation of the island to the city of Armant Luxor. He explained that the lab technician has been withdrawn by the governorate of Qena after the decision has not yet been assigned to the laboratory technician health unit in the island, which serves more than 10 thousand people, and adds that the empty oxygen cylinders for more than a year and a room to detect the unit without the sonar device, although most health units in Luxor by the sonar device.

He also pointed to the geographical conditions that make the island of Armant need more attention than others because they are surrounded by waters of the Nile from all sides, which make it difficult to transfer patients out, and adds that all health units Governorate Luxor running Altazl b 1 pound and treatment are free except the island of Armant Altazl b 3 pounds and one-third of the citizen pays the price for treatment. And also adds that follow-up committee came to the island of Armant Health Unit of the Directorate and make sure that there was no negligence in the health unit.

He appealed to residents of the Island of Dr. Farag the governor of Luxor Department of Health officials to hold accountable in Luxor on this laxity and neglect of the administrative health unit on the island of Armant and a doctor is not all this period and laboratory analysis CSS and empty oxygen cylinder and closed the pharmacy for a long time and the lack of emergency medicine at the reception.