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BEIRUT: All Lebanese doctors have stopped working from Monday until the end of the week in protest against a court verdict.
The medical profession in Lebanon is protesting against the judicial decision to pay high compensation to Ella Tannous, who had her limbs amputated due to a medical error six years ago.
The protesting doctors have been joined by private hospitals, which have stopped receiving patients, except in emergency cases.
The girl’s father Hassan Tannous, however, praised the “honest judiciary.”
Many doctors, including the head of Lebanese Order of Physicians, Dr. Sharaf Abu Sharaf, and the head of the Syndicate of Private Hospital Owners, Suleiman Haroun, staged a sit-in in front of the Palace of Justice in Beirut, calling the ruling “unfair.”
BEIRUT (AP) One of the Arab world’s oldest and most prestigious universities, which endured civil war, kidnappings and various economic crises, is preparing for what may be the biggest challenge in its 154-year history.
The American University of Beirut is confronting a global pandemic, a severe recession and the collapse of Lebanon’s currency all at the same time and is planning a series of sweeping layoffs and salary cuts in response.
AUB president Fadlo Khuri said the school, whose graduates have risen to be leaders and scholars in the Arab world, will lay off up to 25% of its workforce, close administrative departments and shelve an ambitious project for a major new medical center.
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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2021 file photo, a medical worker prepares syringes of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a nationwide vaccination program, at the American University Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon. Human Rights Watch, a leading rights group, said Tuesday, April 6, 2021, that Lebanonâs vaccination campaign has been slow and risks leaving behind some of the countryâs most vulnerable people, including Palestinian and Syrian refugees, as well as migrant workers. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File) April 06, 2021 - 8:20 AM
BEIRUT - Lebanonâs vaccination campaign has been slow and risks leaving behind some of the countryâs most vulnerable people, including Palestinian and Syrian refugees, as well as migrant workers, a leading rights group said Tuesday.