Bouteflika orders the building of a “Val-de-Grace” like Military Hospital in Algiers

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika orders the Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal, to create a project of building a new large military hospital, according to international norms and standards with services like those provided by the French Military Hospital “Val-de-Grace” in Paris, so that Algerians could pass up treatment in the European countries, like is the case for the President’s situation.

Reliable sources told Echorouk, that among the instructions and orders carried by the Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal, and head of Chiefs of the Army Staff, Admiral Ahmed Guaid Saleh, during their meeting with the President of the Republic, in hospital at the services of “Les invalides”, in the French capital Paris, on 11 June, the project of completing a new military hospital, which would be identical in specifications and framework to the international hospitals that are frequented by heads of state in the world, as it is the case for “Val-de-Grace” military hospital, which was the point of the President Bouteflika, twice for treatment, as he has chosen the region of Bouchaoui, in Algiers, which includes the attached Hospital Mohamed Saghir Nakache, or what is known as Ain Naadja military hospital, which is allocated for functional rehabilitation, so that to be the ground for the completion of the new military hospital.

Echorouk sources said that the President of the Republic, ordered Guaid Salah and Sellal to include the project under the government program, as a project with the character of an emergency, and did not neglect to address the post-achievement stage.

 
Same sources confirmed that the large hospital’s management will be entrusted to the task of foreign doctors, professors, doctors who are qualified to deal with the modern medical hardware, which will support the hospital, and obviate the need to resort to foreign hospitals for treatment.

Decision to build an Algerian “Val-de-Grace” hospital in Bouchaoui, carries a political nature, rather than carrying the character of service and economy, given a set of indicators, most notably that Bouteflika, took the decision when was laying for treatment in a French hospital.

Embarrassment that was raised by Bouteflika’s treatment in France did not stay confined to Algeria, but formed of a valid file for exploitation at both Algerian and French arenas, at the time opponents of Bouteflika took advantage of the paper of his treatment in a foreign hospital to hit directly his policy and diminution of the proceeds of development, as some of the political parties in France, especially the extreme right, made of Bouteflika’s treatment in France a political dossier, which reached the French National Assembly (parliament), as Gilbert Collard, MP for the National Front, the French right-wing, did not miss the opportunity in the beginning of June, to ask a question to the French Prime Minister, asking him to reveal on the cost of treatment of the Algerian President of Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the French Hospitals.

Collard dared and went away, although he knows very well that Algeria can pay the bills for treatment of the simplest of its citizens, let alone its President to write on the official website of the National Front Party, headed by Jean-Marie Le Pen, that the long treatment of the President Bouteflika, in the French Military Hospitals cost the French State big money  that was deducted from the budget of the French Ministry of Defence.

Allocation of the financial cover to create a large Hospital with high and international standards in Algeria, even if its managing is entrusted administratively and medically to foreign professionals, there is nothing wrong in it, because the medical staff will receive the costs from the Algerian Public Treasury, and will not be compelled in any conditions to provide daily medical bulletins on the President illness, or other officials who are subject to a cure for the heads of their country or the security of their country, just like the medical bulletins of Bouteflika now, which are certainly put every day on the Office of François Hollande, and the Office of the French intelligence.