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The Coronavirus Preventive Measures and Procedures Follow-up Committee held a meeting in Greater Serail headed by the Secretary General of the Supreme Defense Council, Major General Mahmoud Al-Asmar, and the recommendations issued by the Scientific Committee were discussed in its history at the Ministry of Public Health and the strategy previously approved by the Committee against Coronavirus was reviewed and the procedures it supports were reviewed. And those who do not implement them in this sense.
The meeting issued the following recommendations:
1 – Ministry of Public Health:
1- Activate the work of the epidemiological surveillance program by increasing the number of workers monitoring cases, which are currently about 57 throughout Lebanon, at a rate of 30 workers per 100,000 inhabitants residing in Lebanon, as well as activating the IMPACT platform prepared in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior and Municipalities for the follow-up of cases. And reduce data gaps in order to count and contain incipient cases.
2- Make sure that the hospital and health institutions follow the previously agreed and circulated risk containment protocol, and that it is duly applied by them.
C – Circulate to government and private laboratories, determining the time for conducting the tests for those in contact with positive cases, at least five days from the date of contact with the person infected with the Coronavirus.
D – Develop a plan to increase the number of PCR tests for contacts and the environment most vulnerable to infection, with the aim of limiting the epidemic and limiting its spread, with the possibility of reaching a rate of / 110,000 / examination per million inhabitants.
E – Study and approve the rate previously proposed by both the Coronavirus Preventive Measures and Procedures Follow-up Committee and the World Health Organization for the treatment of patients with Corona in hospital institutions to arrive as soon as possible at a specific formula that adopt private hospitals in the reception and treatment of cases of Coronavirus infection.
F – Activate the commitment of a specific mechanism for the admission and reception of patients infected by the Coronavirus in hospital institutions and the approved mechanism for their withdrawal.
2 – Regarding the quarantine centers that have been prepared and operated by the committee in cooperation and coordination with the Ministries of Public Health, Interior and Municipalities and international donors:
A.- The Ministry of Public Health, within a week of its date, will pay the material allocation owed to the directors of the Corona quarantine centers of the IMF loan destined to combat the Corona pandemic, as previously determined .
B- The international donor agencies work to activate coordination and ensure the operating costs of these centers in a flexible way that responds to the necessary and urgent needs.
3 – Unions of private hospitals, doctors in Beirut, doctors from the north, nurses and nurses in Lebanon, setting up an emergency telephone line for each of them at the disposal of health sector workers to report any problem or complaint related to the non-implementation of the risk containment protocol within health or hospital institutions Address the issue in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health.
4- The Union of Private Hospital Owners Guarantee and work on the opening and operation of special departments for Corona patients in all hospitals classified as “A” in Lebanon, while providing incentives for doctors, nurses and workers in these departments.
5- The Ministries of the Interior, Municipalities and Tourism begin to activate the procedures subject to the third phase of the plan to reopen the generalized sectors in support of the recommendations issued on 08/26/2020 regarding the taking of legal measures against offenders from issuing warnings, organizing seizure records to closing with red wax, rigorously to underline minutes. Administrative control against offenders of preventive measures in terms of not wearing a mask / face mask and nose.
6- The Ministry of Public Health, in coordination with donors, is the need to work on the allocation of beds and intensive care rooms in the Dahr Al-Basheq Government Hospital for the benefit of inmates infected with the Coronavirus.
7 – Ministry of Justice: Work to reduce overcrowding in prisons by activating the implementation of the measures proposed in this regard in coordination with the competent authorities.
8- The Ministries of Public Health and Social Affairs are working on the development of an action plan to respond to and contain cases of Corona infection in health homes (elderly, people with special needs, people with mental and mental illnesses,. ..) and to prepare special beds in hospitals for Corona patients with mental and mental illness.
9 – Include the daily report issued by the National Disaster Management Operations Chamber on the Corona virus, an interactive map of Lebanon showing the number of infected cases per 100,000 inhabitants during the fourteen days remaining in each district to be take appropriate steps in each district to close and tighten procedures in accordance with developments at that time. .
10 – Work to implement and activate the recommendations mentioned above and wait to implement the closure of sectors while continuing to assess the reality of the spread of the epidemic and the capabilities of the health response to build on what is required.
11- The Ministry of Information circulated and promulgated the above recommendations to the public in order to raise awareness and adhere to preventive measures and procedures.
12- Form a working group by the committee to develop an awareness plan against the dangers of the Coronavirus in coordination with local media, NGOs and religious leaders.
Source: National Information Agency
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