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The Ministry of Health reported the assault on an employee of the Minieh hospital

The Ministry of Health’s press office said in a statement, “The Ministry of Public Health strongly condemns the beating of an admissions office employee in the Emergency Room of Minieh Government Hospital on Sunday, January 8, by the family of a patient, resulting in fractures and bruises to the employee.”

The ministry called on the security forces to “move quickly and take stringent legal measures against attackers of health institutions and their workers”.

The Ministry of Health stressed that “the repetition of such attacks would increase the severity of the crises suffered by the health sector in Lebanon. As insults and assaults on health sector workers will have a negative impact on the health services provided and the continuity of work of medical personnel and nursing and personnel, which can lead to death.” Closing some sections of these hospitals, and there’s no doubt the patient will be the hardest hit in this case.”

And the Ministry of Health said that “everyone should understand the difficult circumstances in which health institutions operate at this stage, and reiterated the call on law enforcement agencies to carry out their duties to protect their workers, and also calls citizens to deal with the workers of these institutions in the appropriate way they deserve”.

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