By Sami Zaptia.
Tripoli, 1 August 2013:
At yesterday’s press conference, Health Minister Nouredin Doughman provided the Libyan public with the latest update on the . . .[restrict]work of his Ministry, further to the update he had given in June.
Doughman said that the Tripoli Medical Centre (TMC) dealt with a third of Libya’s patients. He said that it was in need of urgent and deep renovation and rehabilitation.
He revealed, without naming it, that an Indian company had won the tender to renovate the TMC back in November 2011. However, he lamented the fact that the contract was still stuck in the Libyan bureaucracy.
He revealed that he had not received any communication from the Audit Bureau (AB), but that he had heard that the AB was considering putting the TMC contract out to tender again.
This, he complained would cause problems and delays, and that the management of the hospital and his ministry would not be responsible for any negative effects of this possible delay.
Doughman felt that the Committee charged with the tender process was competent.
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