Lebanon

Title: Patient Deaths Prompt Health Minister Action

Title: Patient Deaths Prompt Health Minister Action

Following repeated cases of patient deaths after being transferred from one hospital to another, the Minister of Public Health in the caretaker government, Firas Abyad, issued a circular directed at public and private hospitals as well as the Red Cross. The directive emphasized the necessity of not allowing any patient to leave the hospital emergency room without securing a bed for them in another hospital.

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