The pioneers of communication sites in Egypt shared a video of the Minister of Health, Hala Zayed, in her first appearance following her long absence, due to ill conditions And the outbreak of a corruption case involving her ex-wife.
The video revealed a meeting that brought the minister together with the ministry’s leaders in an informal session at her home, where she spoke regarding the doctors’ responsibility towards patients and their role in receiving any sick condition and treating it as a humanitarian, professional and moral duty, saying: “We will be held accountable before God for every patient.”
Former Egyptian Minister of Health Hala Zayed
Last October, the Minister of Health submitted a request for an open leave, following she fell ill and had high blood pressure, and the Minister of Higher Education Khaled Abdel Ghaffar was assigned to carry out the work of the Ministry of Health. In addition to his responsibility in his ministry.
The leave came following a case of bribery was revealed in the ministry, in which the minister’s ex-husband and 4 of the ministry’s employees were accused. Investigations into the case revealed that the defendants, including the minister’s ex-wife, mediated To reopen two private hospitals in exchange for a bribe.
The investigations acquitted Dr. Hala Zayed, and confirmed that there were only 4 accused, including her ex-husband, who used her name to obtain bribery.
A common photo of Muhammad Al-Ashhab
According to the investigations, one of the defendants demanded for himself an amount of 5 million pounds as a bribe from the owners of a private hospital by other defendants to prevent the implementation of the decision to close it.
The judges in Circuit 27 of the Cairo Criminal Court, held in the Fifth Settlement, heard the argument of the representative of the Public Prosecution in the case, who confirmed that the minister’s ex-wife used his influence to postpone the implementation of the decision to close the hospital.
The representative of the Public Prosecution added that “the defendants were seized by lust for money, so they asked and took a bribe” from the owners of Dar Al-Saha Hospital, adding that the husband of the Minister of Health asked for the bribe, taking advantage of his son in the incident, despite the latter’s unawareness of it.
