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Rajana Diet wrote in “Al-Akhbar”:
About a thousand boxes, yesterday was the Corona counter. For the second time in less than ten days, the meter registers this number, with which the country officially enters the stage of dangerous expansion, especially if it is taken into account that the injuries that are registered belong to those who are in contact, and the “importer” has few. This is where the danger lies. Yesterday, the counter counted 940 injured, 923 local infections, compared to 17 expatriates, who predicted the virus outbreak. This was evident in several areas that lost control of the epidemic, such as Tripoli, Saida, the Baabda region and other areas that follow the same path. Worst of all, is the imminent danger the virus threatens in prisons, where it spreads rapidly. In Roumieh Prison alone, the Corona meter recorded 352 injuries (7 of which are hospitalized) out of 956 examinations carried out so far. From Roumieh to Zahle Prison, where 3 were injured, as well as two cases in the Headquarters Prison in the same area, one of which was admitted for treatment, while the second was released.
To avoid the worst, the Committee on “Health care in prisons to face the coronavirus” issued a series of recommendations, among which the main one is the need to “accelerate the trials and use remote electronic interrogation in a way that contributes to alleviate overcrowding “and” to increase the number of beds in government hospitals in order to accommodate increasing numbers of people. ” Patients, especially intensive care beds, as only Hrawi hospitals in Zahle and Dahr al-Basheq are currently receiving Corona-infected prisoners, which is not enough, and there is a need to increase hospital centers as soon as possible.
In addition, the committee recommended “continuous training on prevention methods for all prison staff, including members of the security forces and medical and nursing staff, by the Union of Doctors.” As for the general requirement, which has become a fundamental need, it is to urgently obtain “material support from the State for hospitals to prepare for the epidemic in the coming autumn and winter seasons, and to support medical personnel and nursing so that it can fulfill its functions in terms of ensuring the medical and preventive supplies we need in these centers. “
Returning to the subway, the total number of injured, as of last night, reached 18,251. However, it’s not just the casualty counter that portends evil, not even the spread locations. The indicator that is no less dangerous is the death count, whose number of victims is increasing day by day. Yesterday, it recorded 13 deaths, bringing the death toll to 328.
Despite the country entering the heart of the storm, private hospitals continue to deal with the Corona virus on the basis of profit and loss accounts. So far, it still refuses to enter the fight against the virus, without a “fee discount” that in many cases exceeds what is established by the Ministry of Health, especially with regard to PCR tests. In this sense, highlights the statement of the head of the National Health Authority “Health is a right and a dignity”, Dr. Ismail Sukkariyah, on the abuse of “some hospitals signe” that “collect 250 thousand pounds instead of 150 thousand pounds for the pcr exam, while the majority Unfortunately, reject the result of any exam, regardless of its origin, even the academic university. The problem applies even to “normal” hospitals, noting that “one of the hospitals in Mount Lebanon insisted on taking 400,000 pounds from an elderly woman in exchange for an exam. “Sukkariyeh regrets that this happens at a time” when private hospitals charge the cost of pcr tests from the Ministry of Health, “and at the same time wonders on the role of central supervision and inspection of the Ministry of Health “to protect the patient from the greed of these people and exploit the open crown season.”
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