The Prime Minister, Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, visited today, Sunday morning, Al-Shaab General Hospital project on the Rusafa side of the capital, Baghdad. Al-Sudani was briefed on the development of the completion stages of the project, which is considered one of the lagging projects, as work began on it in 2013. It was suspended for several years.
A statement by the Prime Ministry stated, “Al-Sudani chaired a meeting at the project site, in the presence of the Minister of Health, the Governor of Baghdad, the resident engineer, and representatives of the executing company, to discuss the project’s conditions, stand on the most prominent problems facing it, and direct them to be addressed.”
The statement said, “Al-Sudani stressed not to make adherence to the instructions a justification for obstructing achievement, and an outlet for the sustainability of corruption, through the delay in projects of lagging hospitals, to enter service as soon as possible.
The Prime Minister directed “the necessity of adhering to the timings related to implementation, and that representatives of the Ministry of Health be present in the project throughout the day, to follow up the smallest details in it, and he also assured the executing company that he would personally follow the timelines for the completion stages.”
Al-Sudani instructed the follow-up team to submit urgent reports on the causes of delays and pauses in the important joints of the projects, in order to find solutions, push work towards progress, and take the necessary recommendations that require quick decisions regarding them.
The statement added, “Al-Sudani toured the specialized hospital wards consisting of several floors, in addition to the consulting clinic, radiology, laboratories, dialysis ward and physiotherapy, and to identify the paragraphs that need approvals and urgent solutions, directed to remove routine obstacles and take what is necessary to complete the hospital.”
The statement indicated, “the hospital’s work is witnessing a total completion rate of more than 70% after the resumption of work in it, based on the continuous directives of the Prime Minister in addressing the file of lagging hospital projects, which have received priority in the government program and plans to provide services.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency