ambulances are
dropping Covid- positive patients in need of urgent care in hospital car parks and wards lacking
life-saving equipment or drugs as doctors battle a sharp increase in the number of critical cases, health professionals told
The National.
“There was a day last week when we didn’t have a single ventilator left. We borrowed one from another hospital, but each day, we are on the brink of disaster,” said Georges Ghanem, chief medical officer at the Lebanese American University – Rizk Hospital.
The new year brought record-high numbers of coronavirus cases after restrictions were eased during Christmas and New Year festivities.
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Wiley Education Services Accelerates Growth with Five New University Partners Wiley Education Services ends 2020 with 15 new global partners, and plans to launch more than 80 new online programs
HOBOKEN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Wiley Education Services, part of John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE: JW-A) (NYSE: JW-B), recently signed five new university partnerships including University of Montana, New Mexico Highlands University, New York University, Spring Hill College, and – marking further momentum globally – Lebanese American University. Across these five new university partners, Wiley will support 27 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral online programs in a variety of high-demand disciplines like healthcare, social work, business, and computer science.
Isaac Adewole (Trustee member of the committee)
An external candidate, Professor Isaac Adewole has been a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria since 1997. He was the former Nigerian minister of health from 2015 to 2019 and the 11th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan from 2010 to 2015 as well as the past President of African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC). His research interest is in the area of human papillomavirus, HIV, and gynaecologic oncology. Amongst the skills required for the Board of Trustees, Professor Adewole can point to knowledge of governance at the international or national level; experience of advocacy and working with government; and leadership in SRHR. Professor Adewole is from West Africa, currently located in Nigeria. He also lived in the UK for 18 months and spent 6 weeks in the USA in the past.
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Students of the American University of Beirut have called for a tuition strike after the administration adopted a new dollar exchange rate last month, equal to a 160 per cent rise in annual fees.
They launched the “We won’t pay” campaign, urging students not to pay the tuition fees that are due on February 5, which have become largely unaffordable for many in the crisis-hit nation.
“I may be putting my education at risk because I only have one semester left before I graduate, but I will not pay the full tuition,” Karim Saadeh, t
reasurer of AUB’s Student Faculty Committee, told