A gap between regulation and practice pervaded all of Mehmed Ali’s institutions

Evidence

When contrasted with Clot Bey’s regulations, these accounts of the way the regimental field hospitals in Syria functioned show the enormous gap separating model from reality that so characterizes the entire reign of Mehmed Ali, and not only his health policy. As seen above, the regimental hospitals were underfunded, overcrowded, lacked qualified doctors capable of dealing with the health problems of an army at war and, above all, suffered from all the problems that were characteristic of other establishments of the Pasha, namely corruption and inefficiency. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1141

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the pattern of corrupt, inefficient army institutions the reader is tracking for military performance.