Fatima Hamroush

Fatima Hamroush (Arabic: فاطمة الحمروش) (born 14 February 1959) is an ophthalmologist and Libyan politician. Born in Benghazi on 14 February 1959, Hamroush moved to Ireland in 1996 and later became an Irish citizen through naturalisation and thereby became a dual Irish-Libyan citizen.

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• We inherited a mess”, Stores were drained, assets frozen, buildings and facilities wrecked, staff dispersed. Worse, it was not just that the system was not working as a result of the revolution. “There was no system”,
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• the difference was that people’s demands were so much greater in the case of healthcare.
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• Another problem has been infection control in hospitals. “Doctors have been giving out antibiotics to everyone”, says the minister. As a result there are now untreatable strains of bacteria. “There are young injured with untreatable wounds due to the development of resistant strains“
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• We had no money”, Apart from paying salaries, the budget only came into effect on 1 June. “But we managed to run the system. We kept it going. Despite all the various crises, we ran it well.”
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