Sisi orders moving school wall collapse victim to 'specialized' hospital

CAIRO - 26 December 2018: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi ordered to transfer Mohamed Ashraf, who was badly injured in a school wall collapse in el-Marg district, to a "specialized" hospital.

It was known later that Ashraf would be transferred to Wadi el-Nile Hospital in Cairo's Zaytoun district.

President Sisi wrote on his official Facebook page that he has followed up on the call of Ashraf's mother through social media. "I directed the concerned bodies to transfer my son Mohamed Ashraf to one of the specialized hospitals and to provide the required medical care for him."

The victim's father said that the Presidency contacted them to transfer Mohamed to Wadi el-Nile Hospital after they suffered mistreatment from the administration of Ain Shams University's El-Demerdash hospital. He asserted in an interview with Sada al-Balad that El-Demerdash refused to receive the letter of health insurance, under which the child must be treated at the expense of the state.

He stressed that his son was treated well however by the medical staff in the hospital, pointing out that such misconduct by the hospitals' administration is familiar in all the governmental hospitals.

"The [Demerdash] hospital's administration nearly caused the death of my son," Ashraf's father stated.

Ashraf's mother called for the officials' help on social media after she said her son was diagnosed with internal and external hemorrhage in the brain, bleeding in the abdomen, broken metatarsal bones (foot bones) and a broken leg's tibia.


FILE - School student Mohamed Ashraf
A wall of a building,reportedly illegally included inside al-Manara private school in Marg district northeast of Cairo, collapsed on Thursday, causing the death of one student, Abdelrahman Mohamed Darwish, and the injury of many others, in addition to emotional distress for those who were present at the time.

Minister of Education Tarek Shawky suspended the general director of al-Marg Educational Administration, the under-secretary of administration and the director of private education until an investigation is conducted on whether the school notified the concerned parties about the state of the wall and took the necessary cautionary measures for the students' safety.