The Prime Minister inspects six youth, educational, health, tourism and development sites in Tafila Governorate
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- The Prime Minister emphasizes the importance of continuing sports, educational and professional training courses in all youth centers and expanding them in various governorates of the Kingdom.
- The Prime Minister praises during his visit to the traditional clothing company in the Rashadiyeh area the company's efforts as a successful investment that includes 18 branches throughout the Kingdom, contributing to providing thousands of job opportunities for Jordanians.
- The Prime Minister visits Sigma Wire and Cable Manufacturing Company in Tafila Industrial City, meets with a number of investors there, and confirms the government's keenness to provide facilities, incentives and support to attract investments to industrial areas, especially in the southern governorates.
- The Prime Minister visits the Hammamat Afra site in Qasaba Tafila District and directs the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature to develop and rehabilitate all its facilities and the necessity of giving the site full care and attention, and marketing it domestically and abroad to attract tourists and visitors, considering it a unique site for therapeutic tourism in addition to other tourist sites.
- The Prime Minister inspects the Grandal Primary Health Center in the Busayra District and directs to expand its services and strengthen its medical and nursing staff, and rehabilitate its facilities.
- The Prime Minister directs to expand Grandal Basic School and comprehensively rehabilitate its facilities, and establish a playground and courts and facilities for elementary and kindergarten students.
- The Prime Minister directs to address the needs of Tafila Government Hospital and follow up on the needs of Tafila Care and Rehabilitation Center and meet the necessary requirements for students and teachers at Saad bin Abi Waqqas Elementary School for Boys in the Qadsiya area.
- The government settles the problem of delay in disbursing overtime allowance for workers in Tafila Municipality.
Prime Minister Dr. Jafar Hassan inspected, on Monday, a number of youth, educational, health, tourism and development sites and facilities in Tafila Governorate as part of his periodic field tours.
During his visit to the Qadsiya Youth Center in Busayra District, Tafila Governorate, the Prime Minister emphasized the importance of continuing sports, educational and professional training courses in all youth centers and expanding them in various governorates of the Kingdom, as he directed to provide the center with a computer lab and the necessary tools and equipment to expand its activities, expand its halls and improve its facilities, and establish a playground to serve beneficiaries.
The Prime Minister, accompanied by the Minister of Youth Raed Al-Adwan, reviewed the training courses held at the center, especially English language and Taekwondo courses, and directed to expand these courses to include a larger number of beneficiaries of both sexes.
During his visit to the traditional clothing company in the Rashadiyeh area of Busayra District, the Prime Minister praised the company's efforts as a successful investment that includes 18 branches throughout the Kingdom, contributing to providing thousands of job opportunities for Jordanians.
The Prime Minister confirmed during his tour of the company's factory in the presence of the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Labor, Dr. Nidal Al-Qatamin, the government's support for further expansion of these investments as successful models that contribute to the development of local communities and support the national industry, as the company exports its products to many countries around the world, most notably the United States of America.
The factory was established in 2017 with a capital of 3 million dinars, and provides nearly 400 job opportunities for Jordanians, including 13 with special needs, as well as a childcare center that accommodates 50 children to facilitate working mothers, a medical clinic, transportation allowance and lunch for workers.
During the Prime Minister's visit to Sigma Wire and Cable Manufacturing Company in Tafila Industrial City, the Prime Minister met with a number of investors in the industrial city, affirming the government's keenness to provide facilities, incentives and support to attract investments to industrial areas, especially in the southern governorates; to contribute to development and provide employment opportunities for the local community.
During the visit, the Prime Minister, in the presence of the General Manager of the Industrial Cities Company, Adi Obaidat, listened to a briefing on Sigma's exports, which reached nearly 5 million dinars in 2025, providing 50 job opportunities, including 3 with special needs, and its products are exported to a number of sister Arab countries.
The Prime Minister inspected the Grandal Primary Health Center in Busayra District and directed to expand its services, strengthen its medical and nursing staff, and rehabilitate its facilities; to contribute to improving the level of services it provides to citizens from the region, where nearly 10,000 citizens benefit from its services annually.
During his visit to Grandal Basic School in Busayra District, Tafila Governorate, the Prime Minister directed to expand the school and comprehensively rehabilitate its facilities, and establish a playground and courts and facilities for elementary and kindergarten students.
During the Prime Minister's visit to the Hammamat Afra site in Qasaba Tafila, the Prime Minister directed the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature to develop and rehabilitate all its facilities, and allocate the required funding for that; to improve the services provided to its visitors.
The Prime Minister stressed the need to give the site full care and attention, and market it domestically and abroad to attract tourists and visitors; considering it a unique site for therapeutic tourism, as well as working to develop other tourist sites in the governorate.
The Prime Minister listened to a briefing from officials of the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature on the development projects of the Hammamat Afra tourist site to enhance its presence on the national tourism map.
During his visit to Tafila Governorate, Prime Minister Dr. Jafar Hassan directed the Ministry of Health to address the needs of Tafila Government Hospital and meet all the necessary requirements to improve the health services it provides to citizens.
He also directed the Ministry of Social Development to follow up on the needs of the Tafila Care and Rehabilitation Center and support it to enable it to expand the services it provides to beneficiaries from the region.
He also directed the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development to meet the necessary requirements for students and teachers at Saad bin Abi Waqqas Elementary School for Boys in the Qadsiya area.
On another note, the government settled the problem of delay in disbursing overtime allowance for workers in Tafila Municipality.
The Tafila Governor, Dr. Sultan Al-Ma'adi, accompanied the Prime Minister during the visit.