Iran: Government is Unable to Pay Its $33 Billion Debt to the Ministry of Social Security
- Saturday, 05 November 2016 16:40
NCRI - A board member of the so-called Tehran Province’s Association of Islamic Labor Councils has said: “the Ministry of Health seeks possession of workers’ medical resources by wasting of which it can move forward with its failed Health Transformation Project.”
In an interview with the state news agency ILNA on November 1, Mohammad Reza Farzalian announced that from the beginning of Mullah Rouhani’s government, the Ministry of Health’s managers have only been seeking to encroach the resources belonging to The Ministry of Social Security.
He added: “the motivation behind this move by the Ministry of Health has only been to compensate for the inefficiencies caused by an unreasonable rise in costs of health services.”
The official claimed that “as a result of adopting this policy by the Ministry of Health, the Health Transformation Project has turned into a bottomless well which is going to swallow all the public and private health funds.”
Board member of the so-called Association of Islamic Labor Councils added: “since it’s clear that the government is unable to provide the necessary resources to fill this bottomless well, the Ministry of Health’s managers are seeking the possession of the Ministry of Social Security’s health resources by insisting on the continuation of their failed project.”
Labor activists have repeatedly reminded over the past few years that the government is unable to pay its huge debt, amounting to more than $33 billion, to the Ministry of Social Security. On the other hand, to compensate for its resource deficit in such failed projects as the Targeted Subsidy Plan, the government encroaches on the financial resources of active and retired Social Security workers, despite being an instance of the resources belonging to the people.
Farzalian added: “the workers are by no means willing to relinquish their health resources since they’ve found out well that their health resources, such as hospitals and clinics, will wear out and become useless once in government’s hands.
