The papers of this notebook contain the names of ministers and senior officials, and it also contains employees and small workers, all of whom fell into the ropes of Satan, fell into the bribery net, and drowned in the mud of corruption.
And if we tell you, “Health”, we have numerous complaints .. It is the famous millionaire who imported old medical devices and equipment and sold them to Ministry of Health hospitals at more than twenty times their real price, thus winning tens of billions of pounds of public money.
Before the scandal of the old medical devices calmed down, a second scandal erupted in the Ministry of Health, this time related to contaminated blood bags and its hero was Dr. Hany Sorour .. The investigations of the Public Funds Investigation and the Public Funds Prosecution confirmed the complicity of many employees and leaders of the Ministry of Health in the scandal.
Investigations said that one of the suspects in the case had been promoted to the position of Director of Legal Affairs .. The investigations revealed that one of the leaders of the Ministry of Health issued a decision to execute thousands of contaminated bags filled with blood from donors, and they were placed in the Ministry’s warehouses. However, the Ministry was not able to implement the decision, due to the speed of movement of public funds investigation officers, as they immediately rushed to seize the bags, and released them pending the case, considering that it is one of the most important evidence in the case that proves the danger of these bags to the health of citizens. Blood banks from these quantities of blood because they were contaminated with bacteria and fungi inside the bags is a waste of public money, which led to the Ministry of Health charging large sums of money to purchase other alternative quantities of blood to meet the needs of hospitals.
"Mountainous" corruption
The scandals continue with Dr. Hatem El-Gabali - Minister of Health before the January Revolution - issuing himself a decree No. 188 of 2010 for treatment at the expense of the state, and he traveled to London for treatment there at the expense of the state, although he is the Minister of Health of Egypt, and he owns one of the largest hospitals in Egypt, and the Council of Ministers He had agreed to treat Dr. Hatem El-Gabaly, Minister of Health abroad, in the period from 2006 to 2010, in violation of the law, with expenses of up to two million pounds, in addition to the first-class travel expenses by plane, and the travel allowance in the category prescribed for ministers.
Al-Jabali, when he was Minister of Health, issued treatment decisions for his wife, Mona Ayouti, at the state's expense in the United States for a month, for an amount exceeding $ 70,000.
El-Gabaly also agreed to transfer treatment decisions worth more than 20 million pounds to Dar Al Fouad Hospital, which owns a percentage of its shares.
Various reports revealed that one billion and 500 million pounds of public money had been wasted in the case of treatment at the expense of the state, after allocating most of the decisions to private hospitals.
Shady deals
The ministry also witnessed a number of suspicious deals that were all awarded by direct order to some companies, foremost of which is the decision to entrust the supply of 500 ambulances to a supplier by direct order, although the transaction value amounted to 202 million pounds.
Monitoring reports revealed that there are more than 5,700 units for dialysis in hospitals, and government medical institutes do not comply with quality requirements and standard specifications. In addition to the Ministry's hospitals using expired medicines for the public.
One of the companies in which al-Jabali contributed - at the time he was a minister - seized 17 thousand meters on the corner of Youssef Abbas Street from the Autostrad side and Cairo from Nasr City Investment Company at a price of 100 pounds per meter for 13 thousand square meters only at 100 pounds per square meter, while the price per meter in this The area - at the time - was not less than 70 thousand pounds.
mafia
Corruption complaints continue to reveal the existence of more than one mafia inside the Ministry of Health ... a mafia for supplying medicines to the ministry’s hospitals .. and a mafia for licensing medicines who supervise drug licenses by preventing the licensing of any medicine except through the mafia of supplying medical supplies to the Ministry of Health .. and the mafia supplying baby milk .. And so it became Ministry of Health, Ministry of Mafia.
The incident of Dr. Ahmed Aziz, advisor to the Minister of Health for the Medical Centers Secretariat, confirms that corruption has reached the largest head in the Ministry of Health, and Dr. Mahmoud Fouad, Director of the Right to Medicines Center, revealed that the deal to supply equipment for the two units of liver and marrow transplantation is part of the development work for which the advisor of the minister is responsible The Nasser Institute was a direct order of a company owned by a relative of a doctor close to Dr. Ahmed Aziz. Several names of companies were not presented to choose the lowest price according to the law.
He confirmed that the medical equipment and supplies that were supplied to the two units were returned after being inaugurated by the Minister of Health, Dr. Ahmed Emad.
The Minister of Health, Ahmed Emad, who took over the ministry in September 2015, had delegated Dr. Ahmed Aziz to work as his advisor to the secretariat of the specialized medical centers, with a salary of about 8 thousand and 300 pounds, but the minister complimented his owner by issuing a decision raising his salary to 25 thousand pounds.
New spoilers
Sources in the Ministry of Health confirmed that the coming days will witness the discovery of many of those involved in corruption cases in the ministry, some of which are related to profiting from public money, and others related to wasting public money .. The sources said that the regulatory agencies have seized a number of documents from within the Ministry of Health, after the doctor’s arrest. Ahmed Aziz, and that most of the documents relate to the deals and tenders for dealing with companies supplying supplies, medicines and drugs to Ministry of Health hospitals.
No. 3 corruption
Dr. Walaa Gad Al-Karim, director of the Partners for Transparency Foundation, revealed that the Ministry of Health is the third most corrupt Egyptian ministry .. He said, “Since 2014, the Partners for Transparency Foundation has monitored incidents of corruption in all ministries, and this monitoring revealed that the most corrupt ministries are the Ministry Supply, followed by the Ministry of Agriculture, then the Ministry of Health, and it does not mean that it is the third that there is a big difference between the corruption of the Ministry of Supply (the most corrupt) and the Ministry of Health (the third in the list of corruption), so the truth is that the difference between them is very small, for example, during the last month of April We detected 95 incidents of corruption this month, of which 13 were in the Ministry of Supply, 10 violations were in agriculture, and 9 were in the Ministry of Health.
Gad al-Karim explained that the most prevalent type of corruption in the Ministry of Health is financial corruption, which is associated with obtaining bribes in the tenders and auctions organized by the ministry, for the supply of medical devices or medicines, followed by the corruption of health insurance, corruption of control over medicines and medical supplies and food control.
The director of the Partners for Transparency Foundation attributed the spread of corruption in the Ministry of Health to 3 factors, including two at the level of Egypt and the third factor pertaining to the Ministry of Health alone .. He said, “Unfortunately, the anti-corruption mechanisms in Egypt are weak, and the administrative control is the only body that works seriously, while The accountability apparatus is still preoccupied with the struggle between state agencies and Counselor Hisham Geneina, the former head of the agency, while the administrative prosecution is still bound by outdated legal frameworks, not to mention that it is not independent.
He added, "Unfortunately, the Minister of Health is also chosen on technocratic grounds, and then the minister lacks political sense, and this loophole is exploited by the spoilers in order to penetrate and spread."
the most dangerous
In the same direction, Dr. Mahmoud Fouad, Director of the Egyptian Center for the Right to Medicines, affirmed that the Central Administration for Pharmacy Affairs is the most corrupt department in the Ministry of Health, followed by the Free Treatment Administration that closes hospitals for no reason and reopens them without reason, in addition to allowing the sale of medicines in Clinics, and some private clinics and hospitals are left to perform surgeries .. He said, “The Ministry of Health allocates every year 2 billion pounds for construction and development, and this amount is spent on demolishing and building hospitals, tenders and auctions, and this huge amount opens the door to corruption in the Ministry of Health wide.”
Dr. Fouad wagered that the advisors chosen by the Minister of Health, Ahmed Emad, would cause him many problems during the coming period .. He said, "Unfortunately, the minister's advisors will be a burden on him and not assistants in the accepted sense."