Urgent request from “Health” to those concerned

The media office of the Ministry of Public Health issued a statement in which it said: “The difficult financial situation, which is reflected sharply on the work of hospitals and doctors, has formed the focus of successive meetings held by the Minister of Public Health, Firas Abyad, in the recent period with the relevant officials in the Banque du Liban, in coordination and consultation with the Doctors and Hospitals Syndicates, with the aim of finding Financial solutions enhance the resilience of the medical and hospital sector, but these efforts have not yielded the desired result.”

The statement added, “Indeed, the Ministry of Public Health regrets the failure to find solutions to the financial pressures that prompted the medical and hospital sector to decide to strike for two days, and it understands the reasons for the protest movement to highlight the eligibility of the demands, but it stresses and is keen at the same time that this should not affect this.” Move on the medical services that must be provided continuously and without interruption to patients.

The Ministry of Public Health appealed to the relevant officials in the financial and banking sectors to “find possible solutions as soon as possible, because the permanence of work in the medical and hospital sector is linked to the due service of patients, and it is not possible to delay and wait for settlements and major solutions.”