Egypt - Nationwide Public Health Crisis Due to Continued Violence in Hospitals, Some Emergency Rooms Closed

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Everyday I see at least one article about a violent incident at a hospital. Here is just 1 article from today:



Doctors" specialty emergency numbers for reporting abuse hospitals ..
Crisis escalate attacks on hospitals .. The continued closure of Al-Hussein University and the coast and the University of Menoufia .. And "Mina" emphasizes the military police did not do their duty in securing only in hospitals, "Ahmed Maher"
Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 08:35

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A long corridor a dark and closed rooms greets you as soon as you arrive at the reception and Emergency Hospital, Al-Hussein University, this is the place which is not supposed to stop working for one moment to rescue the sick and save the others may be on the brink of death, it's a place abandoned where there is no trace of life. this is the case of Section Since last Friday, which was shut down completely after the abused people of a sick beat the doctors and nurses working section, which led to break the arm of a nurse, and injuring others and bruises,

then the doctors decided to close the department and not to return except in the case of adequate insurance for him, especially since that's not the first time that the assault on the workers the department, but it comes to breaking tools in it, and this is evidenced by the case of all sections of the reception iron, which breaks the glass is located by the result of those attacks. "Whenever we decide to open department efforts" security "self, you are abusing us and we decide to close", this was confirmed by d. Slim Tiger, director of the reception and emergency Balhasin university, pointing out that the incident last Friday, took place after the reopening of section two hours only, but they were forced to close because it has become possible, and no doctor can work in such circumstances. said the tiger, that senior management I tried to communicate with the forces of military police to secure the section, but the non-arrival of any troops so far means there is no response to their request, explaining that the forces of military police is that they can repel any attack on the hospital, because the regular police no longer has a "weight", while that hospital guards are private persons, "not helpless" and can not fend off any attack on the partition. not limited to crisis closing sections of reception and emergency hospital Hussein University, but so are most of the major hospitals in Cairo and the provinces, especially the Sahel Hospital Teaching Shubra and Bulaq Dakrur and Shubra-General and Mr. Jalal, and identifying which witnessed the incident a terrible set fire to the emergency department, and has been closed emergency departments Hospital, University of Menoufia, Samalut, in addition to many other hospitals.

In spite of the Declaration of Major General Hamdy religion military police commander, the troops will move to secure the 100 hospitals However, some of those forces left the hospital after less than 24 hours, while not only the soldiers are sent only in some other hospitals, according to d. Mona Mina member of the Medical Association, and coordinator of the Movement of Doctors Without Rights, which confirmed the "seventh day" that the military police did not turn in a secure hospital on a permanent basis and an adequate number of troops but in a hospital, Ahmed Maher, which led to higher turnout in the hospital because of the closure of other hospitals nearby, as "Mr. Jalal," which also led to the rapid run out of medical supplies from the hospital. She explained that the doctors think in coordination with the people of the neighborhoods, located by the hospitals, to defend it on a temporary basis until there is enough security forces, but a solution is difficult implementation, demand d. Mohamed Morsy, President of the Republic, quickly orders urgent to secure the hospital even before the formation of the government, because of the crisis that did not end immediately, will pick up and turn to greater disasters. For its part, has developed the General Union of Physicians, digital emergency governorates of Cairo and Alexandria, to report any attacks experienced hospitals .

http://www1.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=741115&SecID=12&IssueID=0

Also please see:

Egypt - Violence in the hospitals prompts Medical Association to call for an urgent meeting with the Minister of the Interior - July 12

Egypt - MOH: Shortage of Blood in Hospitals Nationwide - July 14

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Re: Egypt - Nationwide Public Health Crisis Due to Continued Violence in Hospitals, Some Emergency Rooms Closed

An incident yesterday.....


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Video.. 3 thugs break into a hospital in Mansoura .. The doctors strike work
Friday, July 27, 2012 - 00:35

One injured in the storming of the hospital

Saw the emergency hospital in Mansoura on Thursday night, attacked three people at the reception hospital, white arms, and they smashed the glass doors of the hospital and attacks on security personnel and injuring one of the persons who had Taatbauh from outside the hospital. Major General Mustafa Baz, director of security Dakahlia, has received notification from the report Haitham Ashmawy Chief of Detectives of the first section, stating that he had received a communication from Dr. Wael Khafagy director of the hospital by the 3 people, and they Amr descriptive and his two brothers Sameh and Mr. hand slaughterhouse in Mansoura broke into the hospital, white arms, and that Takabba for a living, they had shot him outside the hospital, called the "satisfaction. A "store owner Parts motorcycle, wounding him with injuries and serious wounds, and wounded on the Saber Mohamed Ahmed security personnel at the hospital a cut in the face" 5 stitches. " immediately directed a number of security leaders and the Medical Association in Mansoura, Dr. Gad Guardian, also showed doctors a public outcry , led by Captain doctors who accused the police of military negligence, wondering: How income thugs of the three, and went out of the hospital without arrest, and how to repeat the attack on three hospitals in Dakahlia on the same day. also announced the doctors going on strike, and not to receive any cases only existing cases at home, where he witnessed the hospital Seen many ambulances and people outside the doors of the hospital. said patient satisfaction, Mr. Al-Awadi, that the cause of infringement upon that one of the three, named "Amr. and" he had hired him Motosacla ten days ago, and was used in theft and escape from the police, and when he went to receive the motorcycle its request the Head of Investigation to help them in the arrest of "Amr", and this is what was and wait until it was released, and the harm to him and the infringement he and his brothers and followed to the hospital.

http://www1.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=741804&SecID=296&IssueID=168