MOHIDDINE-HAMAD

"Here, the quality of medical services is worse than before due to poor administration. It is difficult to sustain funding as all budgets have gone towards managing medical emergencies and there is a real lack of qualified staff, specifically technicians. We have had a broken down MRI machine for the past three months but as the contract was made with a company that belonged to Gaddafi'€™s right-hand man, everything has come to a halt. I have to deal directly with the French manufacturing company. To only have two MRI's in a city like Tripoli is not good enough. Furthermore, the public gynecological hospital has been closed down and so now only private clinics can accommodate pregnant women."