The House Health Committee has requested that Health Minister Ahmed Rady submit a report on the ministry’s expenditures for 1H2016-17 to determine whether its budget is in line with the compromise reached last on meeting the constitutional requirements on health spending, Al Borsa reports. A committee member said that, if the report were to reveal that the government had allocated EGP 47 bn to the ministry, rather than the EGP 74 bn the House had agreed upon, this would be grounds for a vote of no confidence in the Ismail cabinet for violating the constitution. This member appears to have missed the point entirely of the compromise, whereby the House signed off on the government NOT meeting the requirement. Forgive him, Father, for he is an MP.

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