Lebanon to probe sick baby’s death amid health care crisis
BEIRUT — The Health Ministry said Sunday it will investigate the death of a baby girl whose family said she was not able to access proper hospital treatment amid Lebanon’s severe medical...
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Mazboud Central Hospital said in a statement that Sayyed had been brought in in critical condition due to low oxygen and septic shock, but that the infant was taken from the hospital against staff advice, and later returned with heart and lung failure, but could not be saved
11 July 2021
Police in the Chouf town of Shehim have opened an investigation into the death of 10-month-old Joury al-Sayyed, the NNA reports. Local media quoted Sayyed’s family as saying that she died after they were unable to find medicine or treatment for her high fever
11 July 2021
Lebanon has registered 314 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Two more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 7,875
11 July 2021
The association of pharmacy owners has announced a partial suspension of its strike on Monday and Tuesday after the caretaker health minister pledged to provide lists of medicines that will remain subsidized. Pharmacies will only serve patients with a signed doctor’s prescription
11 July 2021
Expat pill couriers: A lifeline in medicine-starved Lebanon
Barely two hours after Lydia landed from Marseille in France, friends and relatives flocked to her apartment to collect drugs that have vanished from Lebanese pharmacies because of crippling...
