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Bad medication in Yemen exhausts Yemenis` funds abroad
By: Ali al-Khail Translated by: Saba Stuff Edited by: Mahmoud Assamiee
Yemeni sick cases who are looking for medical
treatment in Egypt have increased recently to more than 200.000 cases a year by the
expense average of $2000 of each. The total cost is estimated to be $ 400mln
annually,
according to the Yemeni embassy in Cairo statistics.
This increase is related to the bad diagnosis, management as well as the absence of
supervision, evaluation and responsibility in the public and private hospitals.
There
is also a gap between the patient and the physician.
Yemen News Agency (Saba) shed lights on the reasons behind patients' desire to be
treated abroad and how to solve the gap between patients and physicians, as well as
the
difficulties that may face the Yemeni Patient abroad.
We have met a number of patients in Cairo, the 33 Abdul-Ellah from Amran said that
he came to Cairo over a pain below his neck after the Yemeni physicians said that
his
serious and bad state need chemical therapy before the disease spread but his
relatives advised him to go abroad to be sure of the diagnosis.
Consequently, he went to Cairo and underwent medical tests according to the
specialist physicians in Egypt though all the huge sums of money and some doctors
blackmail.
Surprisingly, all the tests he underwent affirmed that he dose not have malicious
tumor in his neck but he suffers thyroid malfunction. So he has been given iodine
and he
is in good health now.
Abduh Ali Saleh has a similar story to the previous person. He affirmed that he
left Sana'a to Cairo looking for a medicine to his wife over the diagnosis of the
Yemeni
physicians which affirmed having a tumor. Physicians referred him to the Tumor
Center where they prepared a medical report to be treated abroad. "As I arrived in
Cairo with
my wife, we went to Qaser Al-Aini hospital where they carried out needed tests to
her," he said. "Unexpectedly, the examinations showed that she is free of malicious
tumor.
But she suffers benign tumor which needs eradication and plastic surgery and that
would be too expensive," he made it clear.
Old man Abduh from Taiz who has suffered from Prostate tumor according to
examinations of a hospital in Taiz got the same treatment, a surgery has been
decided to eliminate
the tumor from his body. But after consulting his sons who decided to send him
abroad for treatment and that was not because they do not trust the Yemeni
physicians but
because they do not have the modern medical instruments. After repeating the tests
many times in a private hospital in Cairo he got astonished of being tumor - free.
He only
needed a penetrating surgery besides having a tablet every day and he is fine now.
Jaber Mohammed is another case which took six months to be decided on. After six
months of searching, the tests and the diagnosis catheterization showed that he has
a narrowing
in the kidney's arteries. That needed an urgent treating catheterization and fixing
a balloon.
Jaber pointed out that two years after the surgery, the disease came back, blood
pressure went up and kidney functions deteriorated and the doctor decided to do the
surgery
again. But because the doctors' carelessness, they used to give him fake
appointments for two weeks and ultimately told him that the blood vessels scanner
did not work and
this case was not their specializations.
"I have sold all my properties to go to Egypt and do the demanded tests, but the
disaster was that all the doctors there depended on the primary tests the Yemeni
doctor
did not mention any information in the report about the balloon surgery. Then the
physician decided to carry out therapeutic catheterization to insert a new one
inside the
pervious to expand the arteries. The surgery succeeded and I am in good health now,"
Jaber explained.
Ahmed Ali, from Dhamar, pointed that his brother's case is stable now after three
surgeries of planting a nerve in his right foot in a hospital in Cairo after most
of the
Yemeni physicians decided to amputate it because of their bad diagnosis.
"Yemen has medical cadres and abilities. But there is no honesty in diagnosing.
Treatment in Egypt is expensive but useful," he added.
All patients in Cairo agreed that there is a trust gap between the patients and the
Yemeni physicians because of their enormous mistakes in diagnosing and
carelessness.
As well as Yemeni hospitals suffer the shortage in the medical instruments.
Dr. Nashwan Mohammed affirmed that the trustless between the patient and the
physician is because of the absence of the black list that should contain names of
doctors and
hospitals who committed huge and fatal mistakes against their patients, as well as
the absence of the supervision, responsibility and the punishment principle.
Dr. Abdul-Salam al-Ba'adani who owns a medical service office in Cairo affirmed
that the medical problem in Yemen is lack of conscience and honesty of performing
their duties.
These two principles are rarely found in a doctor or a hospital in Yemen because
they only care about how to collect money by any means.
He also pointed out that the Yemeni patients coming to Cairo are constantly
increasing because of the lack of trust and also the absence of the specialist
staff in Yemen.
"I am sure that we have qualified medical staff in Yemen but they do not do their
job appropriately, they do not care about people or community as much as money and
fame",
he said.
The health attaché at Yemen embassy in Cairo, Dr.Adel al-Ansi told Saba that the
average of the Yemeni patients' influx to Cairo reached to more than 200.000 a
year. At
expenditure average of $ 2000-3000 for each and this costs the national economy hard
currency annually.
He also affirmed that embassy's role is to help Yemeni patients, guide him to the
appropriate physicians and hospitals. It also helps them in getting some discounts
in private
labs as well as having some contracts with high qualified hospitals to treat Yemeni
patients in low prices considering their living state, pointing out that most of the
cases
suffer from (kidney diseases and kidney failure, cancer in all its kinds, cardiac
surgeries, liver, bones and blood vessels).
He also said that the trust- absence between is because the bad administration, the
medical quality absence as well as supervision.
Additionally the existed hospitals do not cover some cases that need high
specialists. Al-Anisi point out that the medical syndicate law in Egypt imposes
physicians to differentiate
between the Egyptian patients and the foreigners in which foreigners should pay
double charges. However, we do not have these medical differentiations in Yemen.
He also insisted on the importance of having coordination between the two health
ministries in the two brotherly countries by making medical centers in Yemen and
bringing
Egyptian medical teams constantly to Yemen to perform the complicated surgeries here
in Yemen.
Yemeni sick cases who are looking for medical
treatment in Egypt have increased recently to more than 200.000 cases a year by the
expense average of $2000 of each. The total cost is estimated to be $ 400mln
annually,
according to the Yemeni embassy in Cairo statistics.
This increase is related to the bad diagnosis, management as well as the absence of
supervision, evaluation and responsibility in the public and private hospitals.
There
is also a gap between the patient and the physician.
Yemen News Agency (Saba) shed lights on the reasons behind patients' desire to be
treated abroad and how to solve the gap between patients and physicians, as well as
the
difficulties that may face the Yemeni Patient abroad.
We have met a number of patients in Cairo, the 33 Abdul-Ellah from Amran said that
he came to Cairo over a pain below his neck after the Yemeni physicians said that
his
serious and bad state need chemical therapy before the disease spread but his
relatives advised him to go abroad to be sure of the diagnosis.
Consequently, he went to Cairo and underwent medical tests according to the
specialist physicians in Egypt though all the huge sums of money and some doctors
blackmail.
Surprisingly, all the tests he underwent affirmed that he dose not have malicious
tumor in his neck but he suffers thyroid malfunction. So he has been given iodine
and he
is in good health now.
Abduh Ali Saleh has a similar story to the previous person. He affirmed that he
left Sana'a to Cairo looking for a medicine to his wife over the diagnosis of the
Yemeni
physicians which affirmed having a tumor. Physicians referred him to the Tumor
Center where they prepared a medical report to be treated abroad. "As I arrived in
Cairo with
my wife, we went to Qaser Al-Aini hospital where they carried out needed tests to
her," he said. "Unexpectedly, the examinations showed that she is free of malicious
tumor.
But she suffers benign tumor which needs eradication and plastic surgery and that
would be too expensive," he made it clear.
Old man Abduh from Taiz who has suffered from Prostate tumor according to
examinations of a hospital in Taiz got the same treatment, a surgery has been
decided to eliminate
the tumor from his body. But after consulting his sons who decided to send him
abroad for treatment and that was not because they do not trust the Yemeni
physicians but
because they do not have the modern medical instruments. After repeating the tests
many times in a private hospital in Cairo he got astonished of being tumor - free.
He only
needed a penetrating surgery besides having a tablet every day and he is fine now.
Jaber Mohammed is another case which took six months to be decided on. After six
months of searching, the tests and the diagnosis catheterization showed that he has
a narrowing
in the kidney's arteries. That needed an urgent treating catheterization and fixing
a balloon.
Jaber pointed out that two years after the surgery, the disease came back, blood
pressure went up and kidney functions deteriorated and the doctor decided to do the
surgery
again. But because the doctors' carelessness, they used to give him fake
appointments for two weeks and ultimately told him that the blood vessels scanner
did not work and
this case was not their specializations.
"I have sold all my properties to go to Egypt and do the demanded tests, but the
disaster was that all the doctors there depended on the primary tests the Yemeni
doctor
did not mention any information in the report about the balloon surgery. Then the
physician decided to carry out therapeutic catheterization to insert a new one
inside the
pervious to expand the arteries. The surgery succeeded and I am in good health now,"
Jaber explained.
Ahmed Ali, from Dhamar, pointed that his brother's case is stable now after three
surgeries of planting a nerve in his right foot in a hospital in Cairo after most
of the
Yemeni physicians decided to amputate it because of their bad diagnosis.
"Yemen has medical cadres and abilities. But there is no honesty in diagnosing.
Treatment in Egypt is expensive but useful," he added.
All patients in Cairo agreed that there is a trust gap between the patients and the
Yemeni physicians because of their enormous mistakes in diagnosing and
carelessness.
As well as Yemeni hospitals suffer the shortage in the medical instruments.
Dr. Nashwan Mohammed affirmed that the trustless between the patient and the
physician is because of the absence of the black list that should contain names of
doctors and
hospitals who committed huge and fatal mistakes against their patients, as well as
the absence of the supervision, responsibility and the punishment principle.
Dr. Abdul-Salam al-Ba'adani who owns a medical service office in Cairo affirmed
that the medical problem in Yemen is lack of conscience and honesty of performing
their duties.
These two principles are rarely found in a doctor or a hospital in Yemen because
they only care about how to collect money by any means.
He also pointed out that the Yemeni patients coming to Cairo are constantly
increasing because of the lack of trust and also the absence of the specialist
staff in Yemen.
"I am sure that we have qualified medical staff in Yemen but they do not do their
job appropriately, they do not care about people or community as much as money and
fame",
he said.
The health attaché at Yemen embassy in Cairo, Dr.Adel al-Ansi told Saba that the
average of the Yemeni patients' influx to Cairo reached to more than 200.000 a
year. At
expenditure average of $ 2000-3000 for each and this costs the national economy hard
currency annually.
He also affirmed that embassy's role is to help Yemeni patients, guide him to the
appropriate physicians and hospitals. It also helps them in getting some discounts
in private
labs as well as having some contracts with high qualified hospitals to treat Yemeni
patients in low prices considering their living state, pointing out that most of the
cases
suffer from (kidney diseases and kidney failure, cancer in all its kinds, cardiac
surgeries, liver, bones and blood vessels).
He also said that the trust- absence between is because the bad administration, the
medical quality absence as well as supervision.
Additionally the existed hospitals do not cover some cases that need high
specialists. Al-Anisi point out that the medical syndicate law in Egypt imposes
physicians to differentiate
between the Egyptian patients and the foreigners in which foreigners should pay
double charges. However, we do not have these medical differentiations in Yemen.
He also insisted on the importance of having coordination between the two health
ministries in the two brotherly countries by making medical centers in Yemen and
bringing
Egyptian medical teams constantly to Yemen to perform the complicated surgeries here
in Yemen.
