Dr. Samir Naguib Banoub , MD a name most Egyptians and Americans do not know despite the role it has played recently in the United States. Most of the Americans do not know that Dr. Banoub is the man behind the Obama's health care plan.
Dr. Banoub is a professor of public health and expert in WHO. He left Egypt in 1970s and published several studies and reports about the public health systems in the world.
I am very proud with the role Dr.Banoub played in America but I wish that the day will come and he plays a similar role in pushing the national health insurance project in Egypt . We are in desperate need for better public health care. In the last 30 years we have become a sick nation and the regime is insisting to turning us as a dying nation by supporting insurance health systems good for the rich only and abusing the treatment at the state expense program.
I Wonder if Dr.Banoub knows that our minister of health who owns Egypt's most expensive private hospital in the country treats his wife at the state expense abroad or how the minister of finance who owns three palaces who treats his eyes abroad at the state expense !!??
People hope not to get sick for fear they can't afford the medicine , we have become simply no medicinenor treatment for poor man land !!
DO YOU KNOW WHY SENIOR POLITICIANS TREAT THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES INOTHER COUNTRIES OTHER THAN EGYPT:-
ReplyDelete1 BECAUSE IT IS FREE
2 MOST IMPORTANTLY IS GOOD QUALITY OF MEDICAL CARE NEAR TO PERFECTION
I DO NOT BLAME THEM TO LEAVE EGYPTIAN PROFESSORS OF MEDICINE WHO ARE ONLY INTRESTED IN MAKING MONEY AND NOT PROVIDING GOOD QUALITY CARE EVEN IF YOU HAVE MILLIONS OF POUNDS
I WOULD ADVISE YOU TO GO TO DOWN TOWN IN ACIRO AND ALEXANDRIA AND CHECK THE DOCTORS WORKING HOURS ,,,, MANY OF THEM STARTAS EARLY AS 10 AM AND MANY HAVE MORE THAN ONE CLINIC IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE TOWN ,,,, DO YOU KNOW WHAT ARE THE WORKING HOURS IN EGYPT 8AM ---1400 I CHALLENGE YOU IF YOU CAN FIND ONE OF OUR GREAT PROFESSORS SEEING PATIENTS IN THE L.E 1 CLINICS WHERE THE REAL MEDICINE IS TREATING POOR PATIENTS AND TEACHING JUNIOR DOCTORS AND PASSING ON THEIR EXPERIENCE
PLEASE BE REALISIC AND ADVISE DR NAGIB TO STAY WHERE HE IS AS HE IS WELL APPREACITED IF HE COMES OVER TO EGYPT YOUR SENTENCING HIM TO SLOW DEATH BY ENVY ,,HATRED AND STUPIDITY
THX A LOT
PS I AM A DOCTOR WORKING IN THE UK FOR 20 YEARS AND I VISIT EGYPT EVERY YEAR AND I DREAD TO SUFFER ANY MEDICAL PROBLEMS IN EGYPT BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT IS THERE
ALSO TO ADD I DEAL WITH MANY PEOPLE WHO WERE REFERRED BY EGYPTIAN PROFESSORS BECAUSE THEY DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG ,, ALL THEY NEEDED IS JUST A GOOD DOC TOR TAKING A GOOD HISTORY FROM THE PATIENT AND USING COMMEN SENSE WHICH WE MISS IN EGYPT AS WE ONLY USE FAHLAWA
To the good doctor from the UK (above). Healthcare in the US is certainly not free. God forbid you’re ever sick and don’t have insurance or the money to pay for medical costs. Similarly,health care for non-EU residents is also not for free. In fact it's very expensive.
ReplyDeleteI’m also an Egyptian doctor in the UK. I resigned from the NHS last year in protest at the abysmal service offered by my specialist department to patience in the West London Hospital where I used to work. Free health care in the UK whilst as not as bad as it is in Egypt, is absolutely appalling.
I’ve attended a couple of Dr. Samir’s lectures at John Hopkins and Kuwait. He’s never actually practiced medicine. He’s a healthcare systems practitioner and former WHO bureaucrat.
Zenobia,
Dr. Samir is a regularly contributor in Egyptian newspapers and I know for a fact that he was contracted by Awad Tag El-Deen to provide consultancy services for the MoH when Tag El-Deen was at the helm of the Ministry. I don’t know if anything materialized.
You should be advocating for the return of Amanda Banoub (do you know if she’s related to Samir?).
This is Samir Banoob greeting all of you. I was directed to your "Chronicle" by a friend. I thank you all. In response to your comments, First, I practiced medicine for many years as an internist in Egypt ( University, Navy, Moasaat, Mabarra and Coptic hospitals in Alexandria), but my interst pulled me into management where I continued a long academic career. You will feel that when you treat patients, you mostly prevent complications and help them cope with disease. When you manage health systems or agencies, you prevent many dealths and improve many lives. When you teach health management, you multiply your impact by the number of those you trained and that is my career story ( visit www.sbanoob.com). Working in international health makes you rise above country borders. And working in health directs you to humanity, human safety and human rights. With all my busy schedule, I never forgot my beloved country Egypt and frequently offered consultations, mostly free, working with colleagues and government, but our directions, attitudes and acts are not matching. In the US,we team work. I have been fighting for universal health coverage with research, comparative studies, model design until the Great Obama did it, a tough fight which is still continuing.
ReplyDeleteRegards to all