At the outset, the administration of the Rafic Hariri University Hospital extends its deepest condolences to the family of the deceased, asking for mercy. She asserts that this news is totally false.
“In the facts, on August 24, 2022 at eleven o’clock at night, the young woman Samira Azzam, accompanied by her father, came to the emergency of the “Rafic Hariri University Hospital”, who entered the emergency hospital alone, where he kept his daughter inside the car and did not leave it. The medical team reported to his daughter from the “Lebanese Geitaoui Hospital,” stating that “the patient came to the “Lebanese Geitaoui Hospital” due to chest pains, hemorrhage under the skin in the area of the eyes, and pain in the neck and back.” According to the report, the patient suffered from a high fever a week before her arrival. To the “Lebanese Geitaoui Hospital.” The hospital performed an ultrasound and an ultrasound of the heart, so that it turned out that her condition was critical and she needed to be admitted to a hospital. Here, the patient’s family decided to transfer her on their own responsibility to another hospital due to their difficult financial conditions, so she was transferred to the “Baabda Governmental Hospital”, which In turn, he was unable to receive her because he was not ready with the equipment and medical devices specialized in her condition.
The medical team at “Al-Hariri Hospital” asked the father of the young woman to wait a little while until finding a place for the patient inside the emergency due to the density of the number of patients that exceeded the capacity of the emergency department, 32 patients, which angered the father, so he decided to leave the hospital emergency to take his daughter back to the hospital. The Lebanese Geitawi Hospital, “so that the patient was admitted to intensive care there, and her health condition deteriorated rapidly and she died hours after her admission.”
Earlier, the media office in the Ministry of Health issued the following statement:
Under the directives of His Excellency the Minister of Health, the Medical Care Directorate began an investigation to find out the causes of the death of the young patient S.A. in a Beirut hospital, after she was transferred to the emergency departments of a number of hospitals in the capital. and build upon the thing as it dictates.”