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Muhammad Dahsha wrote in Nidaa Al Watan:
Health security in Sidon has been threatened and data in recent days have shown an increase in the rate of contagion of the “Corona” virus, in terms of injuries and deaths, prompting the mayor of Sidon, engineer Muhammad to -Saudi, to declare the city “afflicted by Crown and politics together.”
The Saudi announcement did not stop at this point, but revealed that a fire had broken out in the new Sidon port by “welding”, asking: “We do not know where we will go and what awaits us? Corona is not enough! ” And he told “El Llamado de la Nación” that “the fire occurred on a ship loaded with scrap metal, and the matter would have developed rapidly without the intervention of fire fighting teams, calling on the city’s population to raise the emergency level and adhere to preventive measures to overcome the danger stage.
According to the municipality’s emergency and disaster management ward, the cumulative number of injured in Saida al-Zahrani was 1,056, while the number of injured in Sidon, including the Ain al-Hilweh camp, was 483, while In the municipalities of the Union it reached 573, the number of recovered 277, active cases 779, deaths 9, and in the last 7 days there were 322 injured, and those numbers and rates are alarming.
In a remarkable situation, the Agency’s Director General in Lebanon, Claude Cordone, raised the alarm for a health, relief and educational disaster that Palestinian refugees will witness in Lebanon, if no further financial donations are available, as the Agency suffers from a financial deficit with which it may soon be unable to pay employee salaries.
Cordone, who visited the Ain El-Helweh camp, met with representatives of the “popular committees” at the “Al-Samou” school for a period of three hours, in the presence of the director of the Saida region, Ibrahim Al- Khatib, and the camp director, Abdel Nasser Al-Saadi, who told them that the situation is very difficult in light of global concern about the Corona crisis. We head towards disaster in all directions if financial donations are not available, saying, “The agency provides its services as much as possible, but in the end there are very limited financial possibilities.”
It was agreed to contract one of the private laboratories in Sidon approved by the Ministry of Health to carry out CRP tests after the increasing pressure on public hospitals and the delay in issuing the results, provided this form is circulated and given. to the head of the region’s health department the authority of the decision in order to avoid paperwork An emergency patient in hospitals contracted by UNRWA.
On the other hand, representatives of the Popular Committees renewed their demand for Korodni to increase the rate of health coverage in these exceptional circumstances, to rent a school to house Palestinian students, to increase relief by providing periodic financial or in-kind assistance, and to pressure the international community to implement Resolution 194 and return amid the threat of heading to the borders with Palestine.
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