AMMAN —
Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh said that the unemployment rate in Tafileh
is high, indicating that the government is seeking to attract to the
governorate investments that create job opportunities, Khaberni News reported.
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During a meeting
with Tafileh residents on Saturday, Khasawneh said he had instructed the
Ministry of Public Works and Housing to finish the King’s highway by
reconstructing and rehabilitating 5km of the road in 2023, and another 5km in
2024, and to boost Tafileh’s position on the national tourism map.
He added that he
had directed the Ministry of Agriculture to encourage investments in water
harvesting projects that will contribute to creating job opportunities for
people in Tafileh.
He also asked that
the necessary designs for the Aima and Basira roads, in the southern Jordan
Valley, be quickly completed, and urged the Ministry of Public Works and
Housing to work to light the Hasa-Tafileh road, at an estimated JD1.5 million
allocated in the 2023 budget.
The prime minister
said that the Cabinet had decided to grant incentives to those wishing to
invest in the industrial city in Tafileh, including subsidizing electricity
prices by 75 percent for small and medium investments for the first five years,
50 percent for the next three years, and 15 percent for the following two
years.
He highlighted the
fact that the Tafileh industrial city is now part of the production branches,
and that the local laborers are lent support by the government, who pays half
of their salaries, plus JD25 in transportation allowance, and JD25 as a
contribution toward social security, as well as by including existing
investments in the National Program for Employment for five years.
Khasawneh said that
there is a good number of investors in the industrial city in Tafileh, with an
investment value of more than JD20 million, and that they provide about 500 job
opportunities for the people of Tafileh.
“We have
re-estimated and reduced the renting and land sales costs in the Tafileh
industrial city, and we stress that operating renewable energy companies should
enhance their contribution as part of their corporate social responsibility
toward the people of Tafileh,” he said.
During the visit,
the premier unveiled a ceremonial curtain on a plaque, officially inaugurating
the Tafileh Governmental Hospital.
The JD45 million
facility has a 150-bed capacity, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
Khasawneh toured the hospital’s wards,
accompanied by the ministers of Health Firas Al-Hawari, Public Works and
Housing Yahia Kisbi, and Interior Mazen Al-Farayah.
Speaking at the
opening ceremony, Khasawneh said the hospital should provide the best medical
services and health care for citizens in the southern Tafileh governorate.
The premier also
spoke to patients, visitors, and medical and nursing staff and workers
regarding the hospital’s health services provided to the governorate’s
citizens.
Hawari said the
Ministry of Health has provided the newly-launched hospital with the necessary
health, medical, and administrative staff to ensure its efficient and effective
operations and performance.
To date, he said
the hospital has performed a number of surgeries since it was fully operational
at the beginning of September 2022.
He noted that these
surgeries came after the ministry provided necessary medical equipment and
furniture to all emergency wards, outpatient clinics, surgery halls, and other
departments.
Noting the
ministry’s plan to operate the hospital, he said the scheme included holding
training courses for all hospital workers and setting a trial and evaluation
period for the operation over three phases, which began by launching emergency
wards and the 17 outpatient clinics, which offer several medical specialties.
The hospital’s
total area is about 33,000 square meters, and the cost of its implementation
amounted to JD34 million, while expenses paid to provide medical equipment and
medical and non-medical furniture amounted to about JD11 million.
The seven-story
building consists of 150-patient accommodation beds, seven operating halls, an
11-bed dialysis ward, two quarantine rooms, a 17-bed resuscitation and
intensive care unit.
The hospital also
boasts of a prematurity unit with a capacity of 15 expandable incubators, and
an emergency ward with a 30-bed capacity, which contains digestive and
respiratory units, in addition to a catheter unit and accommodation for medical
staff.
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