Kamel Ghribi with Niccolò Fontana, Italian Ambassador to Baghdad
GKSD President Kamel Ghribi, together with the Minister of Health, Dr. Saleh Mahdi Al-Hasnawi signed a contract today that will see GSD start-up, operate and manage the 429 bed al Sayyab Teaching Hospital in Basra. In so doing, GKSD/GSD are supporting the Iraq Government's healthcare framework for the future and bringing Italian healthcare excellence in training, management and maintenance to the people of Iraq. Also present at the signing were Technical Deputy Minister, Dr. Hani Moussa Al-Aqabi, the Director-General of Basra Health, Dr. Abbas Khalaf Al-Tamimi and a number of General Directors in the ministry.
This is the second hospital in Iraq that GKSD/GSD will manage and operate in an aim to bring Iraqi hospitals towards modern European systems, also in terms of health services and staff training.
GKSD/GSD President Kamel Ghribi commented that "the contract will be a starting point for increasing the volume of cooperation not only between Italy and Iraq in the health sector and other sectors, but lead the way for European cooperation as a whole."
Kamel Ghribi with Niccolò Fontana, Italian Ambassador to Baghdad
Kamel Ghribi with Ali al-Zaidi Prime Minister of Iraq
Kamel Ghribi with Abdul Hussein Al-Mousawi, Minister of Health
Kamel Ghribi with Yousef Al Knawi, Governor of Najaf
Kamel Ghribi with His Eminence Sayed Ammar Al-Hakim
Kamel Ghribi with Faleh Al-Sari, Minister of Finance, Iraq