Trading measures hinder setting up cancer treatment device [Archives:2007/1106/Local News]

Muhammed Al-Fa'iq
For the Yemen Times
SANA'A, Nov. 24 ) In an illegal action, the director of the National Center for Cancer Swellings confiscated the bank guarantee of the company which implemented a project to set up a linear accelerator to treat cancerous tumors. The device, valued at $2.660, was confiscated under the pretext that the time limit given for setting up the plant had expired. The device was supposed to be set up last September, according to the contract signed by the center and Al-Masiyah Company for Trading and Information Technology.

Previously, Dr. Nadeem Mohammed Sa'eed, director of the National Center for Cancer Swellings, who is also in charge of the National Committee for Atomic Energy headed by Minister of Electricity and Power, Mustafa Bahran, accused Bahran of hindering the plant and sending soldiers belonging to the committee to the center to prevent the company's engineers from entering the plant site. He also confirmed that Al-Masiyah committed to abide by the contract agreed upon, and in case the company takes the matter to court, it will win the case and be compensated.

Mohammed Ateeq, manager for Al-Masiyah, considered the confiscation of the bank guarantee illegal, because the time limit for the plant is nine months from the date of receiving the work site, not from the date of signing the contract, as stipulated in the eighth clause of the contract signed with the Center. The Center refused to give the site to the company, hindering it until the date of submission expired. The National Committee for Atomic Energy also refused to stamp the documents and proposed amendments to the room designed for the linear accelerator, submitted to the company in mid-March. He further affirmed that the company resorted to a lawsuit in an attempt to seek justice and compensation for the company's losses.

Ateeq also noted that the company committed itself to abide by all the articles written in the contract according to the ministers' council resolution No. 262 of 2006. But the National Center for Cancer Swellings and the National Committee for Atomic Energy were in dispute with each other, resulting in hindering the plant and implementing it in the determined period.
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