Egyptian Chronicles: A drop of Blood ,A drop of life

The minister of health "Hatam El-Gabali" I think is one of the most unfortunate ministers in the current cabinet ,because he doesn't deal with recent health threats like the Avian flu only with its great danger but also he has to pay the mistakes of all the previous ministers and mend a health care system the least thing we can say about it that it is rotten really rotten.

The public health sector is really rotten , dirty public hospitals , careless doctors and nurses who don't really care that much thanks to the small salaries ,you only have to read about the fatal mistakes of doctors in Public health sector hospital to know the level they reached to.

On the other hand The private health sector is really expensive , so expensive, you have to pay thousands whether for the doctors or for the hospital or for the medicine, and with all this fatal mistakes from doctors also happen, it is enough to remember the misfortunate of late Comedian Soad Nasr who had been in Coma for a year thanks to a medical mistake in a plastic surgery ,a mistake the private hospital and the rich doctors who did it to her refuse to admit it till now.

Of course the Public health sector is for the majority of the Egyptian from Poor and working class and some of the middle class too , the private health sector is for the minority the rich ,as simple as this

Anyhow as I am saying "Hatam El-Gabali" as health minister is facing lots or trouble , you see he didn't get through the "Avian Flu" till now to find himself in a trouble not less dangerous than "The Avian flu"

It is a bloody trouble

In plain words Egypt is suffering from a shortage in in the "Blood" stock in hospitals , a great shortage in "Blood" stock ,I repeat again , of course you how important Blood is . We are facing a great shortage in it nowadays in Egypt that the Ministry of health,all the civil organization and even banned groups like the Muslim Brotherhood are calling people in Egypt to donate with their blood ,The Blood banks in Egypt are going to bankrupt soon or later.Yet despite the calls for Blood donations Egyptians are scared to go and donate their blood

Why this happened ?? well let's just say this is another governmental corruption case , you see since last month there was a great scandal .It turned out that the plastic bags which are used in the Blood transfusion are polluted in Public hospitals, these plastic bags which are supplied by a medical company "Heidilina" owned by one of the tycoons of the NDP are full of fungus and their dangerous stuff ,you can imagine the threats from such things , already those bags were used for years now !!

Already "Heidilina" as I understand monopolized the market for its sake ,after all the owner in a NDP and a MP also ,I won't here speak about that scandal which turned out to be used as some kind of a game to enhance the photo of the NDP not to protect the people

I am speaking about the implications , beside the polluted Blood transfusion bags there are another two problems , the Blood donations itself and the price of the blood bags .

People are scared to donate now thanks to the polluted bags, really they are scared ,I know some are saying lets donate with our blood after some time ,the problem is many needs in Egypt a single drop of blood now in the time of writing those letters.

Another problem as I said is the Blood price , and this based upon my experience , the Blood packets from a place like The Vaccines center are expensive ,so expensive for the working class,I remember that in year 2005 one packet was equal to 150 Egyptian Pounds ,I remember that I saw a man and his wife hurrying to the Blood bank in the center trying to buy immediately blood for their old neighbor in the hospital ,the man and his wife seemed to me from the poor class ,and they couldn't afford to pay several bags for their neighbor, the doctor in the bank was wise enough to tell them to go to the blood banks of the ministry of health as they offer cheaper blood , a subsidized one ,this was from two years ago what about now the shortage of blood how much will it cost !!??

Well yes the government is responsible as usual for that crisis in the end but how many people would die till we finish the blaming game ??

You know we can help in reducing the price by Blood donation ,it is now supply and demand game , and I am afraid if healthy people didn't go and donate their blood immediately hospitals and they are already doing this now will go to get blood from other unsecured sources ,for example it turned out that they were using the children of streets as donators ,you can imagine the dangers of such things !!

Now the public campagin is every where ,yet people are scared ,they shouldn't be scared because of donation they must be scared if they enter and hospital and couldn't fine enough blood to save their lives and the lives of their beloved ones

Please if you live in Egypt ,go and donate with your blood

Remember One drop of blood is a drop of life