regarding the director of that hospital I would say congratulations he got what he asked for

سلامي للوالد

I think people such as the receptionist and middle managers are the ones who keep ruining things over and over. It’s not the hospital manager only….it’s the whole system, the general mentality of most workeres in Jordan (lazy,careless,not doing their job, the “who gives a damn” attitude,their lack of knowledge,skills,talent,creativity and they can’t simply come up with new suggestions because they are afraid to point out things, so they stay “cool” with everyone (and they are not used to express their own opinion)

A new manager would come, new ideas, new changes (mostly things like, relocating the caf., changing the entrance furniture) then it’s all back to same crummy system, where workers are clueless and rude.

Schools and Higher education inst. in Jordan need to be changed. Yeah and hiring through Wasta should stop.

وان شاء الله كمان انو يكون في تغييرات جذرية أكبر من هيك بالمستشفى ويتصلح الوضع فيو وفي غيرو

Who-Sane, thanks again for allowing us all a part in facilitating change. May the Lord of mercy continue to heal your father.

hamede:

1- To relieve someone from his duties is to fire him. I say tomatoes (to-may-toes), you say tomatoes (to-ma-toes). Dr. Braizat was relieved from his duties and that’s a journalistic euphemism for sacking him and WE ALL know that he was fired and why that happened.

2- He could be one of the best doctors in the world for all I care, but he’s DEFINITELY not the best manager!

3- Then he shouldn’t have taken it! Was he forced to take that position? I don’t think so.

4- He did a lousy job at that, otherwise my dad would not be in his current condition!

5- And how is that our problem? He’s at the top of the hierarchy and should be the first to be held accountable for his staff’s negligence. If he knows that his staff are “corrupted” why did he travel to Canada for a month or so?

6- ??

7- Please refer to the above-mentioned point 1 and 3.

hamede, if you know Dr. Braizat, and I know you do because you said so yourself, then please let him state his point of view on what happened. Thanks.

Samar: I NEVER deleted any comments here and you can go back to the main post and see the anger in the comments. Now why would I delete any supportive comments?

I did however modify some comments that contained profanities and insults which were directed at our King and I would never allow that … and I did delete the ones that wished me and my family more sorrow, do you really think I shouldn’t have deleted those? I don’t think so.

It was NOT the profanities that made the difference Samar, it was the solidarity of our polite blogosphere which I’m very grateful to.

I never lectured people and I would never do so … I merely asked them to keep it clean … now is that a wrong thing to do?

1- If it was his request, it would’ve been called “resignation”. Hamede, did you read the Al Rai article that is linked to my post? (click here if you didn’t) It clearly says that “the decision aims at increasing the efficiency of the hospital”. So it’s very obvious that it was not his decision.

2- How can you solve an issue if you don’t tackle the roots of it? This is basic management 101. So yes, the incompetent staff who were on shift at that time did commit all those grave mistakes, but it’s their managers fault for hiring them in the first place. If you’re a good manager, you’ll hire good people. No?

3- I did visit several public hospitals in Jordan including Al Bashir, and trust me on this one … as bad as Al Bashir may seem to you but it’s still way much better than what I saw in my own eyes at the Prince Hamzah Hospital.

4- To be fair, and I said it before, he could be the best doctor in the world but not the best manager indeed.

5- My blog is the only media that said that he was fired because the news was exclusively carried by Al Rai, who again, chose the words they want. I, on the other hand, do not report to an editor-in-chief and I can clearly see, and so does everyone here, that he was fired.

I have no more comment.

We should rule the universe!

That is excellent news.

Well done man.

Hope your father will get all his health back soon…

as for your assertion that Dr. Brizat is the best in Jordan. let me tell you how the “best in jordan” works here. the government looks around and searches for loyalists. they order they media hound dogs to cover him day and night heaping prize and compliments. when they don’t like someone, they send their media hound dogs to do the opposite. that’s how you become No.1 Citizen or Public Enemy No.1 in Jordan. never believe anything you read in Al-Ghad, Al-Rai, Addustor, and to a lesser extent Al-Arab el-Youm.

if the bloggers never heard of him, he is a nobody. he is the govt’s pet. jordan’s press and media is totally discredeted.

If you want to know how good this doctor is, search medical journals in Canada. if you don’t find him, he is a no body. S

I don’t think it is correct to blame the director alone for everything, can I ask something first:

Can he actually fire/change the employees?

I’m not taking the directors side, I even asked for such actions, he might be guilty as hell and read my posts on the subject to know where I stand but shouldn’t we first know where that investigation is heading…

And if the man wasn’t even in the hospital, then that counts for something, I’m not saying keep the guy as a director.. Hell No, but is he the ONLY one to blame! and what is happening with the investigation…

It’s becoming tooo long, I might actually post this…

He probably wasn’t directly involved in what happened, but as Bilal said, after all, he is the highest paid employee at the hospital and should be the first one to be held responsible and accountable for anything that goes inside the walls of his hospital.

But why can’t a director, the highest ranking officer, hire or fire people? He shouldn’t be the commander in chief if he didn’t/couldn’t.

But I do agree with you this is not the BEST news, but it’s still good to see some action taken by the Ministry of Health.

Hiring and firing authorities get so entangled in governmental entities… I’m just asking a question because in governmental departments, I guess you need higher authorization to releave someone from his post…

http://abedhamdan.com/2007/11/02/my-first-crush/

be honest :P