AMMAN — Jordan’s Private Hospitals Association said yesterday Amman is demanding Tripoli pay around 100 million dinars ($140 million) in bills for tens of thousands of Libyans hospitalised in the kingdom. “Jordan wants 100 million dinars from Libya, for treating its nationals in the country’s hospitals,” Awni Bashir, head of the association, said.
“Libya has paid 21 million dinars so far, but the kingdom is still asking for the remaining part.” Bashir said that “at one point, the number of Libyan patients in Jordan reached 45,000.” “Now, we are treating 12,000 patients in Jordanian hospitals,” he said.
A Jordanian government official said without elaborating that “Libya has promised to pay the remaining funds by the end of this week.” Ali bin Jidyah, head of a society in charge of Libyan patients in Jordan, said that his country will pay 50 per cent of claims for the hospitals in “the coming few days.” — Agencies
