ACA suspends eight of Tripoli Central Hospital’s management for administrative violations

The Tripoli based state Administrative Control Authority (ACA), in charge of the oversight of state-sector employees, announced yesterday that its head had suspended eight current and former members of the management of Tripoli Central Hospital (commonly referred to as Zawia Street Hospital based on where its A&E entrance is).

‎The ACA announced that, based on the reports of the monitoring and evaluation committees of the performance of public hospitals, which included several observations and violations regarding the management of Tripoli Central Hospital, the ACA Chairman issued his decision No. (609) of 2025, to suspend the hospital administration from work as a precaution and refer it to the General Directorate of Investigation.

This, it added, is pursuant to the provisions of Article (31) of Law No. (20) of 2013 AD, establishing the Administrative Control Authority, and its Executive Regulations.‎

The eight suspended former and current Tripoli Central Hospital management employees are:

1. The Director General
2. The Assistant Director
3. The Director of the Inspection and Follow-up Office
4. The Director of the Administrative and Financial Affairs Department
5. The Director of the Medical Equipment Department
6. The Director of the Pharmacy and Medical Supplies Department
7. The Director of the Medical Affairs Department
8. The former Director of the Medical Affairs Department

Well publicised, unannounced, night inspections to hospitals by Acting Health Minister
It will be recalled that the suspensions by the ACA come on the back of several well publicised, surprise, late night, inspection visits over the last week to hospitals across western Libya by the Acting Health Minister Mohamed Al-Ghoaj.

The Health Ministry said the surprise night inspection visits were ‘‘to follow up on the progress of work, evaluate the level of performance, and review the services provided to citizens’’.‎

‎They also come, it added, ‘‘within the Ministry’s plan to evaluate health facilities and determine their actual reality, in order to ensure raising the efficiency of performance and improving the level of medical services provided around the clock‎.’’