Two years after the appointment of Mohammad Salehi Behbahani as the President of the Universityof Medical Sciences Abadan it has been revealed that his financial misconduct from previous management periods has continued during his two-year tenure at Abadan University of Medical Sciences.
This support has resulted in accumulated employee dissatisfaction, structural disorder at the university, and widespread managerial corruption in various layers of Abadan University of Medical Sciences, directly affecting the healthcare situation in the province.
The issue extends beyond Behbahani's current management period. Informed sources have revealed that the previous university management awarded major construction projects, including the construction of new hospitals, to contractors close to them before leaving office. Currently, oversight bodies, including the National Inspection Organization, the Inspection Organization, and the university's internal inspection are investigating these cases.
Meanwhile, the new university president is also accused of awarding key projects like the "Burn Unit of Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Abadan" and "Khorramshahr Heart Hospital" without bidding (waiving formalities) or by applying Article 48
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Contractors Affiliated with University Managers
One of the mentioned contractors, "Arjan Company" (belonging to individuals close to the new president), has been involved in the new phase of the Abadan outpatient department (OPD) for over ten years.
Additionally, a person named Mrs. Khazael is mentioned as one of the corruption links, supported by Jalil Mokhtar, who has remained in her position through several managers and is heavily criticized by employees for extensive embezzlement and budget misuse; to the extent that several of her subordinates have resigned due to her blatant corruption.
In other controversial appointments, "Mohammad Sadegh Salehshour" (a fellow townsman of the university president and lacking a medical degree), who was previously arrested with handcuffs due to extensive financial misconduct at Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences, has now been appointed as the Vice President for Development and Resource Management at Abadan University of Medical Sciences.
Protest and Dissatisfaction Resulting from Nepotistic and Preferential Managerial Appointments
The protest of contract employees has turned the financial decisions of the university into one of the urgent issues for Salehi Behbahani's management. According to employees, about one thousand and 800 contract and volume-based employees in the hospitals of Abadan, Khorramshahr, Shadegan, and Arvandkenar and other medical centers are protesting against the 17-point directive of the Financial Committee of the Vice President for Development and Resource Management. They say the clauses of this directive reduce overtime, welfare benefits, annual leave savings, and uniform allowance, and they demand the publication of the text and its calculation basis and the cancellation of the contested clauses.
