Ministry of Health’s Efforts to Alleviate Patients’ Suffering and Support Sustainable Healthcare in Lebanon

2023-08-02 14:29:52

Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Firas Al-Abyad, announced that “the Ministry of Finance has transferred hospital dues for dialysis patients for three months of this year,” promising that “the Ministry of Health will always strive to alleviate the suffering of patients and secure everything necessary for the continuity of the health sector.”

During his sponsorship of the inauguration ceremony of the solar energy project at Tibnin Governmental Hospital, in the presence of the Ambassador of Japan Masa Yuki Magushi, the Minister of Health pointed out that “receiving the solar energy system in the hospital provided as a gift from the State of Japan, which will help reduce the energy burden on the hospital, which contributes to reducing the bill He emphasized that the strategy of the Ministry of Health is to use renewable energy as a means for a sustainable tomorrow, and this strategy is being worked on in permanent contribution with the State of Japan, which provides all support to the health sector in health care centers and government hospitals. Which makes the health sector more prepared,” stressing that “government hospitals play a role in providing medical services in our communities, especially in areas far from the capital, as the Ministry of Health always seeks to support these hospitals, to carry out their duties towards our people in various Lebanese regions.”

In turn, the Chairman and Director of Tibnin Governmental Hospital, Dr. Muhammad Hammadi, indicated that “this medical edifice, which formed and constitutes a health safety valve for most of the neighboring and remote villages in the districts of Bint Jbeil, Marjayoun, and Tyre, which number 50 villages, and the number of beds in it is 86 beds, with an operational rate of up to 98 percent and employs nearly two hundred employees in addition to 85 doctors of various specialties. It includes emergency departments, laboratory, radiology, outpatient clinics, endoscopy, surgery and hospitalization, children, chemotherapy, intensive care, cardiac care, as well as departments of cardiac tamponade, remote stone blasting and resonance. magnetic”.

She pointed out that “we are meeting today to receive the presented donation, which is some medical devices needed for intensive care, and the opening of a project to generate electric energy from solar radiation for Tibnin Governmental Hospital with a capacity of fifty-five kilowatts, implemented by UNOPS, and provides about 25 percent of the daily energy need in the hospital, which saves us.” Consumption of diesel fuel, generators and electricity. Many thanks to the State of Japan and His Excellency the Ambassador for this valuable gift, which we desperately need, especially in light of the pressing economic conditions. Thanks are extended to the executing company. He also thanked the Minister of Health for sponsoring this project and for transferring treasury advances for employees’ salaries to cover the wage increases that have become Hospital accounts, and for your permanent standing by government hospitals while performing miracles in order to continue working despite all the difficult circumstances.

He wished Ali Al-Abyad “help to raise the hospital’s annual financial ceiling for this year, as we are about to consume the specified financial ceiling, and secure the necessary amounts for the MRI machine maintenance contract for this year and help with the guarantor institutions to raise hospitalization tariffs and reduce the burden on the citizen and help doctors to withdraw their fees from banks Through the Ministry of Finance and in accelerating the transfer of financial allowances due to hospitals. And he concluded: “Here, great thanks must be directed to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, the permanent sponsor of the hospital’s march, and thanks to the President of the Citadel Union and the Mayor of Tibnin for standing by the hospital, and thanks to fellow doctors, workers, and sacrificers for the continuation of the hospital’s march.”

Then the Mayor of Tibnin, Nabil Fawaz, welcomed the audience and thanked the Minister of Health for his sponsorship and attendance at the inauguration ceremony of the solar energy project in the hospital, stressing that this project will contribute to the sustainability and development of this distinguished medical edifice in the region, hoping that this support will continue to overcome obstacles and difficulties.

Both the Ambassador of Japan and the Director of the United Nations Office for Projects spoke, promising that “the priority for aid and donations will be for the health sector and government hospitals.”

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