BEIRUT: All Lebanese doctors have stopped working from Monday until the end of the week in protest against a court verdict.
The medical profession in Lebanon is protesting against the judicial decision to pay high compensation to Ella Tannous, who had her limbs amputated due to a medical error six years ago.
The protesting doctors have been joined by private hospitals, which have stopped receiving patients, except in emergency cases.
The girl’s father Hassan Tannous, however, praised the “honest judiciary.”
Many doctors, including the head of Lebanese Order of Physicians, Dr. Sharaf Abu Sharaf, and the head of the Syndicate of Private Hospital Owners, Suleiman Haroun, staged a sit-in in front of the Palace of Justice in Beirut, calling the ruling “unfair.”
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The head of the Doctors Syndicate, Dr Sharaf Abu Sharaf, blasted the excuses presented by the Minister of Health, Hamad Hassan, in which he justified giving the MPs priority in taking vaccines, he also waned that if the vaccination rollout will continue at this pace it will take Lebanon 3 to 4 years warning if things are not taken. more seriously and urgently , we are heading to a disaster. “
The head of the Doctors Syndicate, Dr Sharaf Abu Sharaf, blasted the excuses presented by Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Hamad Hassan, in which he justified giving the MPs priority in taking vaccines,
A man waits his turn to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a nationwide vaccination campaign, at the Saint George Hospital, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Lebanon launched its inoculation campaign after receiving the first batch of the vaccine 28,500 doses from Brussels with more expected to arrive in the coming weeks. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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BEIRUT (AP) The World Bank threatened Tuesday to suspend financing for coronavirus vaccines in Lebanon as it investigated suspected favoritism amid accusations that lawmakers were inoculated in parliament without prior approval.
As politicians skip the line to receive their coronavirus vaccine, questions arise about the quantity of vaccine doses Lebanon has and will receive and if it’s enough to inoculate the local and refugee population.
World Bank Threatens to Stop Covid Jab Finance Over Wrongdoings by Lebanese MPs Published February 24th, 2021 - 08:03 GMT
Lebanese plan to vaccinate MPs comes despite promises Covid-19 inoculation campaign would avoid nepotism (Twitter)
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Lebanon is notorious for corruption and nepotism, which has brought the Mediterranean nation to bankruptcy.
The World Bank threatened Tuesday to suspend financing for coronavirus vaccines in Lebanon over what it said were suspected violations by lawmakers who were inoculated in parliament.
Such a move by the World Bank would have grave consequences as Lebanon struggles through severe financial and economic crises and is in desperate need of aid. The World Bank said last month it approved $34 million to help pay for vaccines for Lebanon that will inoculate over 2 million people. The vaccination campaign in the country began on Feb. 14 and Lebanon has so far received nearly 60,000 shots of Pfizer-BioNTech.