Tripoli, 20 October 2013:
Tarhuna hospital has called on the government to deal with what it says are acute shortages of specialist . . .[restrict]doctors and equipment, which mean that it cannot serve the local community properly.
The hospital’s director, Abdul Wahab Abdul Qader, has asked the Ministry of Health to provide the facility with modern equipment, according to Libyan news agency LANA. In particular Qader said, the hospital needed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine.
The hospital also requires more ambulances and, he said, there were stalled maintenance projects that also needed urgent completion. The only department finished to date is Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Qader asked Minister of Health Nureddin Dughman to visit the facility and see how hospital staff and patients were struggling under the current conditions. [/restrict]
