The general secretary of the Social Fund for Development, Hussein al Gamal, has set aside $218,866 to initiate micro-projects with those families who have lost their principal breadwinner.When the Cairo Times spoke to him at the prosecutor's office in South Giza, he claimed to have lost $434,528 in the fire which he was carrying packed into suitcases. Although a law providing insurance for all passengers is in the pipeline, the victims of the crash have no means of recovering their losses, as highlighted by the case of an elderly gentleman from Assiut.
The Social Fund for Development and the Ministry of Health have announced plans for searching out families in need. He is currently bringing a lawsuit against the Ministry of Transport and the Railways Organization. The case, although extreme, highlights the difficulty of resolving essentially unprovable claims of loss, something that we may see more of in coming months. No DNA or detailed medical analysis of the remains was carried out.). Families who cannot prove they have lost a relative in the fire may be turned away. Then there's the banks, several of which have opened up accounts to receive donations from charitable citizens, with at least one -- Banque Misr -- pledging $217,000 of its own reserves to the families. Much of the trouble lies in the uncertain identity of many of the deceased, none of whom had records made of their ticket purchases. The "History" section was written by Paul Schemm. Locating all deserving cases will not be a simple matter.
As a result, over 100 unclaimed bodies were pump bearing manufacturers lowered into the graves.--(Robin Moger and Abdullah Hassan collaborated on the "Investigation" and "Compensation" sections. The number of dead was officially fixed at 373 before dropping to 363 days later. Its regional offices will undertake field studies before setting up its micro-projects, and the health minister, Ismail Salaam, declared that he was setting up medical teams in hospitals charged with identifying and registering injured survivors so that they could receive compensation.Families who had come up to Cairo to see whether a missing relative was among the dead not only had to contend with the gruesome task of examining the remains, but had to do so before the official burial ceremony for unidentified corpses was held in the Cemetery of the Martyrs. Money from voluntary donations will all be channeled through the government's programs and distributed according to need. Most victims were charred beyond recognition making identification difficult. The "Political Fallout" section was written by Issandr El Amrani.Perhaps more problematic is the compensation program's failure to address material loss