“A dangerous advance” … 6 hospitals apologize for not being able to continue with their work

The American University of Beirut Medical Center issued the Lebanese American University Medical Center – Rizk Hospital, Saint George University Hospital, Our Lady of Aid University Hospital, Hotel Dieu University Hospital and Mount Lebanon University Hospital A joint statement.

The statement read:

Based on intermediate circular No. 573 issued by the Banque du Liban on 9/10/2020 and addressed to banks and financial institutions and related to Resolution No. 13283 of 9/10/2020, which aims to modify the Basic Decision No. 6116 of 3/7/1996, on possible facilities To be granted by the Banque du Liban to banks and financial institutions, and according to the statement issued by the Union of Importers of Medical Equipment and Supplies in Lebanon last week, which it required all of its hospital and insurance agency clients to pay all their pre and post installments at a ratio of 85% in cash in Lebanese pounds and 15% in foreign currency. As a condition of tracking the delivery of medical supplies.

And based on the media issued on 10/21/2020 by the Union of Medicine Importers and Warehouse Owners in Lebanon, which asks to pay the value of hospital bills in Lebanese pounds in cash, and requests the approval and commitment of hospitals with this as a condition to continue delivering the needs of the drugs available in their warehouses, and since hospital bills are paid earlier. Various public and private guarantor agencies and funds through checks or cashless bank transfers, and since hospitals cannot ask patients, especially in current circumstances, to pay part of their bills in cash, and based on this painful reality who have paid them, hospitals apologize for Patients expressed their inability to monitor the provision of curative and surgical medical services over the next period, especially in light of the continuing shortage of their supplies and medicines stocks and the lack of availability of many surgical supplies and drugs that are generally required for each individual case.

Hospitals whose capacities have been paralyzed by the aforementioned circulars and decisions and cannot continue to transmit their message in the service of patients despite the sacrifices they have made and continue to serve human beings. The health and social security of citizens and the lives of patients, especially those with chronic diseases, and these hospitals also call on the various responsible for health, economy, money, cash and others to take immediate measures to address and correct this flaw, which will inevitably lead to the acceleration of the collapse of the entire healthcare and hospital sector.