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Acting government Minister of Public Health Hamad Hassan chaired a meeting of the crisis cell that was formed to tackle the Corona epidemic at the Ministry of Public Health, which includes the heads of relevant departments and interests and a number of of advisers. The meeting aimed to accelerate the practical steps in which there was a delay in the recent period, which resulted from the shortage of supplies, supplies and medical equipment in the local market and the lack of funds such as fresh money, especially that the Ministry is in the process of streamlining the implementation of three successive stages of the process entitled increasing the number of care beds. In several government hospitals, and to begin to implement the agreement reached with private hospitals.
In a statement he made, Minister Hassan greeted the ministry’s task force “acting as a hive to keep pace with the development of the epidemic in Lebanon”, noting that “the crisis of providing money to buy the necessary equipment it is on the way to a solution, with a promise from the governor of the Bank of Lebanon and the World Bank, where it was agreed. ” A mechanism to pay vendors to accelerate implementation steps. “
He said: “This stage requires efficient, rapid fieldwork and from the ministry team. Meetings will remain open to ensure that the work is completed with the necessary practical steps.”
He explained that “the work that was divided into three stages will be the following:
The first phase includes increasing the number of beds in seven government hospitals in Beirut, Mount Lebanon and the north, where the number of wounded is increasing dramatically, over a period of between one week and ten days, along with the continuation of the campaigns of field test.
The second stage includes increasing the number of beds in the south and west of the Bekaa in a period not exceeding three weeks.
– Government hospitals are supposed to be in the third phase and, in six weeks, they have increased the number of intensive care beds to receive Corona patients.
Minister Hassan noted that “these stages also include the distribution of respirators in the custody of the ministry, in addition to the distribution of donations received by the Lebanese army.”
He added that “strengthening the capacity of government hospitals will be accompanied by the implementation of the agreement reached with private hospitals, according to which the Ministry of Public Health raised the rate of protective subsidies for the treatment of Corona patients.”
He said: “The ministry has addressed a circular to these hospitals to receive patients, noting that there is a proposal that has been discussed with the Union of Private Hospital Owners, according to which a private hospital will be prepared in each governorate for Corona patients. “. He stressed that “a series of respirators will be temporarily distributed or delivered to private hospitals that will fight with the Ministry of Public Health the battle to confront the epidemic.”
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