CAIRO - There are many suggestions as to how the families of the revolution's martyrs and injured could be supported. The National Council of Care for Families of the Revolution's Martyrs and Injured (NCCFRMI) has been formed to receive applications for compensations and medical examinations by a committee of specialists on the Council's premises. The NCCFRMI even held a sit-in outside the Ministry of Finance, objecting to the lack of response to their demands concerning financial compensation and 200 governmental jobs for people, who had been injured during the January 25 revolution. A number of suggestions were offered by different political parties and economic groups to alleviate the problems. MP Omran Megahed stressed that the martyrs' families should get compensated, although one had to distinguish between genuine martyrs and thugs. A parliamentary committee should be formed to investigate and find out who was who. The martyrs should be adequately honoured, since they had sacrificed themselves for Egypt, and their families should be given a pension so they could lead a dignified life. Those who had been injured should receive all available medical care; otherwise a generation of disabled people would be created. They should also be offered jobs according to their skills and qualifications. Hamdi Abul-Enin of the Chamber of Commerce stressed that businessmen should play a vital role in this process. He also pointed at the need to care for the orphans – children whose parents had been killed during the revolution. Otherwise they were likely to become street children; instead they had to be offered housing and education. Abul-Enin noted that street children in general had left their usual places and migrated to Tahrir Square, where they mingled with educated people, vendors, demonstrators and pedestrians, who were not in a position to look after them. MP Amr Hamzawi stressed that social interaction and solidarity with the martyrs' families were of utmost importance. MP Amr el-Shoubaki praised the creation of the NCCFRMI and noted that the Council was under great pressure to succeed. This could not be expected, since the issue in question needed more than a council to solve the problems of the revolution's victims. El-Shoubaki suggested that if someone wanted to help, they should donate part of their income to the medical treatment of the heavily injured. Mamdouh Hamza, Secretary General of the Egyptian National Council, told Al-Messa newspaper that he was urging senior officials, businessmen and public figures to donate funds to set up a major medical rehabilitation project. He was equally in favour of paying more attention to the martyrs' families, so they could live in dignity, and that calls to that extent should not go unheeded any longer.
