Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani chaired today, Thursday, a special meeting to follow up the implementation of government program priority projects and their financing in various sectors.

In the meeting attended by the Minister of Finance, a number of Ministries Undersecretaries, the head of the Board of Advisors, and a number of Advisors, the Prime Minister discussed a group of topics, the most important of which is increasing coverage for beneficiaries of the Social Protection Authority and the full-time employee, and health sector projects in supporting specialized centers for heart diseases and cancer diseases and increasing the coverage rate of purchasing medicines in the governorates, infrastructure projects in the Ministry of Housing and Construction, and maintenance and transportation projects in the electricity sector, in preparation for next summer, in addition to supporting modern irrigation techniques in the agricultural sector.

Al-Sudani stressed the need to spend financial allocations for these projects, and other investment projects, with a new mechanism that accelerates the completion of the projects, and directed the Ministry of Health to focus on rehabilitating hospitals in Nineveh Governorate in order to raise the level of health services provided to the people of the governorate.

Al-Sudani stated that the priorities of the government program must be reflected in the disbursement of budget allocations, noting that the stability of the country depends on the completion of projects, the provision of services, and the fight against corruption.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency