Tunisia-Ministry of Health pays for respirators bought by the benefactor doctor of Kebili

A solution has finally been found for the doctor “benefactor” of Kebili. The health ministry will cover the check issued by Dr Ben Mbarek to purchase respirators for the regional hospital.

The Chief of Staff of the Minister of Public Health, Mounir Romdhani, affirmed that the ministry decided to pay for the respirators that Doctor Mohamed Nouri Ben Mbarek had acquired, via a personal check, for the benefit of the Kébili regional hospital .

The doctor in question had issued a distress call to health authorities, civil society and citizens to provide ventilators to the resuscitation unit at Kébili hospital.

But not having obtained the desired reaction, the doctor had taken the initiative to contact a private company to buy three respirators and issued a personal guarantee check to ensure the arrival of the necessary devices during this period of the Covid pandemic. 19.

Romdhani called Dr Ben Mbarek’s action “noble” and assured that the ministry does not agree to place such a burden on the shoulders of medical and paramedical executives.

Dr. Ben Mbarek’s gesture certainly did not leave you indifferent. Activists on Facebook, had launched a fundraising campaign, for the payment of the guarantee check of 180 thousand dinars that the resuscitator had personally advanced.

The campaign called on donors, citizens, businessmen and entrepreneurs to pay for the cost of the three artificial respirators to be delivered to the Kebili regional hospital