A coordinator has been assigned from the Ministry of Health to follow up on the file of the Korean offer to manage and operate the new Jahra Hospital.
Informed health sources told Al-Jarida that the one who will play the main role in this file is the Assistant Undersecretary for Technical Affairs, through a committee that will be formed to review what has been accomplished during the past period, and set a road map regarding the contract and its various clauses and fields during the coming period.
The sources indicated that after taking the necessary measures to approve the contract formula, it is expected that this file will be followed up through the technical affairs sector in the ministry.
On another issue, the Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Financial Affairs Hisham Al-Dulaimi has issued administrative circular approving new controls to organize the mechanism for assigning overtime work outside official working hours, and the disbursement of financial rewards related to the job.
The administrative circular that Al-Dulaimi issued to assistant undersecretaries, directors of health zones, and directors of central departments called for adherence to a number of controls, and says no employee may be assigned ‘overtime’ work from outside the department without obtaining prior approval from officials from his original workplace, and that everything should be done in accordance with the decisions of the Civil Service Council resolution No. 12 of 2012.
The controls also stipulate the separation of employees assigned to their services in separate payment statements, with the need to attach a copy of the assignment decision to the payment statements, and no employees are included in the lists without an assignment.
The new controls also stipulate that in the event of a request to work outside the official working hours in the health facilities of the Ministry, the statements are checked and signed, in addition to the employment after the official working hours according to the actual work need, and on days other than the vacation days of the assigned employee and outside his guard hours in the event that he was assigned stewardship system.
The controls also stated that overtime work should be a maximum of 4 hours per day, 5 days per week in hospitals and specialized centers, and 3 hours per day throughout the week in primary care centers, in addition to the fact that if work is requested outside the official working hours for major and minor operations, a separate examination is made.