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Afghanistan (Al Jazeera) – At first glance, Jumhoriat hospital looks like a modern new facility – just the sort of place Afghanistan desperately needs. But when one reaches the front door, it becomes clear that all is not as it first seems.The place is deserted. Two unused ambulances are parked under the entrance canopy, and the vehicles are covered with a thick layer of dust. Tiles are falling from the fa?ade. At one place, holes in the brickwork expose the polystyrene that has been used to fill the wall cavities. There are gaps in the doors, allowing Kabul’s dust and pollution to blow into the hospital.Afghan President Hamid Karzai opened Jumhoriat hospital in Kabul on August 16, 2009,China NFL Jerseys, with great fanfare.One day later, the hospital closed again. It has not re-opened since.Shoddy constructionThe facility, built by a Chinese contractor and paid for by the Chinese government, has such poor workmanship that the hospital is not safe enough to open to patients.But there’s another problem: even if the hospital were fit for opening, the government could not afford to run it.Jumhoriat is one of 19 hospitals funded by foreign donors due to be completed within the next two years. The Afghan government can’t afford to run any of them.Al Jazeera was shown an engineer’s survey that lists a catalogue of alarming construction defects in Jumhoriat.The myriad errors are clear even to the untrained eye. The air conditioning exhaust unit, which should be on the outside of the building,Cheap Jerseys Store, has been fitted on a wall in an indoor corridor by a waiting room, and the radiators touch the floor, meaning that when they get hot the plastic floor will meltSuraya Dalil, Afghanistan’s health minister, inherited this mess.Dalil told Al Jazeera that while she is “grateful to the government of China for it’s assistance in constructing this hospital and equipping this hospital”, the hospital is a long way from functioning.“The assessment shows that the hospital needs some refurbishment and some equipment need to be upgraded so that will also require some resources, including financial resources, and some efforts to upgrade the building itself, the construction itself to refurbish some of the equipment and prepare it for a full use,” she said.Dalil is being diplomatic: the survey Al Jazeera has been shown concludes that $44m of remedial work needs to be done to bring the hospital up to international standards.With a total annual health development budget of $135M, the country’s Ministry of Health cannot afford to do the work, making Dalil’s team scramble to find a private company willing to take on Jumhoriat.“The Jumhoriat hospital will be a kind of public-private partnership in healthcare delivery,” she said. “It will hopefully be a model of public healthcare partnership to a large scale.” She added that services will not be free, but the hospital would have a “welfare fund” to cover poor patients.Lack of OversightOnly the Aga Khan foundation,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, a private international development agency,NFL Jerseys From China, has shown interest in running the hospital, but it has yet to make a formal offer.But the government needs someone to take over Jumhoriat soon, and the other 18 hospitals also need running and managing.The health minister hopes that Jumhoriat will prompt foreign health companies to come in and run the other new hospitals.But before the government can start inviting bids for these hospitals, it needs to conduct feasibility studies into each one.While it is unlikely that any of them are structurally as bad as Jumhoriat,Wholesale Jerseys, the government is not completely sure as none of them were built with any government oversight.This is another major problem that has plagued Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban: hundreds of millions of dollars in aid money have been spent here with almost no co-ordination between donor groups and the government.Need for StrategyThe US government’s aid arm, USAID, is currently building two hospitals.Jumhoriat hospitalKen Yamashita, USAID’s director in Afghanistan, acknowledges the problems the Afghan government is being left with.“In the rush and in the attempt to increase the delivery of services, a lot of building of infrastructure may have taken place, without thinking through exactly what the implications are for the longer term sustainability,” he said.“Now we have an opportunity to rationalise it,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, by thinking about what we will do with hospitals that are built and are avail


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City Hall power supply…– Dindyal There was never any commitment on the part of the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) to reconnect the supply of electricity to City Hall following the exchange of cheques between the two parties last month.At least this is based on the details of an agreement which was made in the presence of Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Justice Prem Persaud, and signed by a representative of both GPL and the municipality.On December 22 last,Wholesale Jerseys, municipal Budget Manager, Monica Irving, and GPL’s Aeshwar Deonarine both accepted the terms on which cheques would have been exchanged in order to honour debts owed by either party. In the agreement it was noted that both parties agreed to issued cheques in favour of each other in the sum of $179,jerseys from china,496,876. It was accepted too that the amount paid by GPL will discharge its rates and taxes up to and including 2009 amounting to $116,891,747, together with $62,605,127 representing the Guyana Electricity Corporation’s obligation to the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC).In addition both parties agreed to waive any and all interest charges. GPL Chief Executive Officer, Bharrat DindyalIt was detailed in the agreement too that the amount exchanged does not include rates for the property at Kingston,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, Georgetown, on which GPL has built its 20.7 megawatt power plant and that the M&CC will in due course invoice GPL for the said property which it acquired during last year.It was further stated in the agreement that the M&CC cheque would have partially discharged its obligation for electricity charges owing as at December 2009 and that the municipality at that point had not yet finalised its payment plan as was previously promised. However it was noted that the plan was expected to be submitted in due course.Absolutely no mention of a plan to reconnect City Hall following the exchange of cheques was mentioned in that agreement.However, officials of City Hall are adamant that as part of the agreement, GPL should have reconnected buildings within the compound of City Hall. Failure on the part of the power company to fulfil the municipality’s expectation has even been regarded as a bit of deception, by City Mayor Hamilton Green.In amplifying its concerns, the municipality through Deputy Mayor Robert Williams had inked a letter to Bharrat Dindyal, GPL Chief Executive Officer, which was carbon copied to the PUC and GPL Chairmen.The letter dated December 28, almost one week after the exchange of cheques, acknowledged the details of the agreement and further noted that the remaining amount of $22,976,Cheap Authentic Jerseys,294 owing by the municipality was paid towards street lighting even though it was accepted that the cost was being dealt with separately to allow for verification to be completed.Williams noted that during the meeting chaired by Justice Persaud, the M&CC had proposed to meet all current payments from January 2010 on the basis of the bills supplied for those installations other than street lighting.He noted too that the municipality had requested to be given a short period for discussion to take place with itself and Government to determine a way forward regarding street lights in the city, since the area of expenditure poses serious financial implications.According to Williams’s letter, the discussion with Government would be centred around: Government accepting responsibility for such payment or part thereof; GPL being asked to collect a sum of money on each customer’s bill representing contribution towards street lighting; payment of GPL for installation on all Council’s reserve and increases in property tax to meet GPL’s bills.Williams also mentioned that it was offered that the process of verification of street lights and rates charged against each installation be reviewed by City Hall and that GPL had accepted that meters can be paid for individually.The Deputy Mayor underscored further that in keeping with the understanding the municipality expects reconnection to those facilities that are still without electricity, even as he announced council’s proposal for a continuance of discussions yesterday. However that meeting never came off.Williams disclosed yesterday that the municipality has submitted a payment plan and has since learnt that there will be no further discussion with the power company until the board has concluded perusal of the municipal plan.However,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, Dindyal in an invited comment yesterday said that he has not been informed that a payment plan has been submitted by the municipality. He noted though that the reconnection of the buildings