The media office at the Ministry of Health indicated in a statement, “The Ministry of Public Health strongly condemns the beating of an employee of the admission office in the emergency department at Minieh Governmental Hospital, on Sunday, January 8, by the family of a patient, which resulted in the employee suffering fractures and bruises.” “.
The ministry called on the security forces to “move quickly and take strict legal measures once morest the attackers of health institutions and their workers.”
The Ministry of Health stressed that “the recurrence of such attacks would increase the severity of the crises suffered by the health sector in Lebanon. As insulting and assaulting workers in the health sector will have a negative impact on the health services provided and on the continuity of work of medical and nursing staff and staff, which may lead to death.” Closing some sections of these hospitals, and there is no doubt that the patient will be the most affected in this case.”
And the Ministry of Health affirmed that “everyone should understand the difficult conditions in which health institutions operate at this stage, and it reiterated the call to the security forces to carry out their duties to protect their workers, and it also calls on citizens to behave with the workers in these institutions in the appropriate manner that they deserve.”