In a statement, the Ministry of Public Health denounced, “the repeated immoral attacks once morest members of staff working in hospital institutions, including doctors, nurses, administrators, and security guards, the latest of which was the attack by a patient’s son in the emergency department at Hiram Hospital in Tyre, where he threatened the staff.” The doctor who treated his mother and stabbed the guard in the hospital with a dagger in the back without any justification, despite the medical and nursing staff providing first aid and the necessary examinations and x-rays.”
The Ministry reiterated its appeal to “officials to act quickly and seriously to put an end to such disgraceful attacks on health institutions, and to arrest the aggressors and impose appropriate penalties once morest them so that hospitals do not have to close their emergency departments, especially since their workers are exposed, on a daily basis, to humiliation and assaults that may pose a danger.” on their lives.”
