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Come on in, come see the place
"Instituted in the era of Hosni Mubarak..."
The entryway is here. quite the sight
(Zefta General Hospital)
We've been moved from Zefta hospital to here
This one hospital now handles surgery, trauma, everything
Your resources force you to push all your clinics into a tiny, cramped corridor
Come, on, come look at the sight of this
Look, look
This is the bathroom for the Zefta hospital
Look at the door here
Film this, get a good look at the door here
Ignoring everything else for a moment, look at just these doors!
Is this really a hospital?
This is the area for casts, pediatrics, just about everything
(Orthopedics)
There's no space besides this one room
Here's the X-Ray department
This machine that we're working on had been in storage in Simbo for almost a decade
We pulled it out when we didn't have any other alternative
The large machines that were new, got packaged up and were sent to Shubramilles
I mean we can only really do arm and leg scans,
we've got no ability to do pelvic, thoracic, spinal, cranial
(X-Ray Department)
It should be the case that the operator has somewhere to stay when he's off duty
But here he's put in a bed right there, completely exposed to X-rays all the time, it's incredibly dangerous
[Weeping]
I'll tell you what, we'd love it if Hosni Mubarak were acquitted right now
But- on the condition that he would have to come and sleep in these beds instead of his own
and see the treatment that sick Egyptians get. It's inhumane!
[Man crying in pain]
With all due respect to the doctors
Nobody's available to help, he got thrown here and that's that.
He needs an ultrasound and a CT scan, and there's nothing in the hospital
This is the housing for the doctors
There's no bathroom, no kitchen, nothing of the sort
Take a look, when they need to use the restroom, who knows even where they'd find to do so
Take a look at the doctor's housing, look how they're living
(No entry for non-medical personell, for your own sake)
(Intensive Care)
We're an intensive care department without an intensive care department; we've got no equipment besides an EKG
We've got a small bit of emergency medicine, but if we need anything else, we have to go out and buy it ourselves
Take a picture of this, here's the Intensive Care Unit
It's all trash down here, all trash
Is this really the facade of a hospital?
This is all used supplies, this is what we're dealing with here in Zefta
There's no janitorial capacity
There's not even janitors
We've been here since 7AM and nobody's been able to see us
They're importing medicinces and getting treatment abroad, but we're stuck with no services and filth
There's nothing in the hospital, it's basically empty
What's the difference between private hopsitals and here?
The difference is that private hospitals charge for money; we're poor, we can't afford it.
[Meanwhile]
[Only about 40km away]
[we find Kafr Zayat public hospital]
The hospital building, it's got a ton of capacity
The operating rooms, the intensive care, the equipment, there's a lot here.
There's no question about that
But the problem is the maintenance
The security company for instance, look at the gates, anyone can just walk right in or out as they please
Here's the cardiac care unit
Over there, the ICU
And lo and behold, we're at zero percent capacity
How is it that a public hospital has no patients?
We've got no doctors
I mean, I've got an 8 bed clinic here, it's clear that it looks clean, nice.
Where are the people to work here, where's the medicine that will get this clinic operating?
I'm sure that the problem is from above, from the Ministry of Health on down
I mean we occupied the front of the ministry before even, asking for our rights as doctors
but what happened? Nothing.
Any revolutionary push in this country right now gets dealt with with careless mockery by the government
I don't get it; it's as if people didn't even have the right to ask for their rights.
Now we're in the kidney failure unit
We've got about 120 patients, coming for dialysis once a week
There's 30 of these patients that contracted Hepatitis C
When that happened, we submitted a complaint to the public prosecutor's office here in Kafr Zayat,
then we went and personally submitted the complaint to the prosecutor general of Tanta
And so all this is now sitting around in the courts, but nobody really cares.
(Dr. Kareema Hefnawi, Right to Health Campaign) We've been warning for over five years that the businessmen, the tycoons and the government, before the revolution
wanted to privatise the insurance, such that-to put it bluntly-If you can't pay, you're screwed.
(Egypt has signed international agreements obligating it to spend at least 15% of its national budget on healthcare)
There's no social equity
There's people who get treatment in the International Heatlh Center,
and there are people who get treatment in, as you can see, what might as well be the street.
We've got no rights to treatment or care
and the national budget they've made is for them, not for us.
[The current expenditures on healthcare in Egypt are less than 5% of the annual budget]
Illness doesn't differentiate between rich and poor
Here, in a country where half of the citizenry lives under the poverty line
we must insist on a system of comprehensive, complete social health insurance for all Egyptians
If you don't decide to increase the budget for healthcare and education at the national level, then there can be no change.
[To Reach the "What's More Important that the Health of Egyptians?" Campaign]