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Firass Abiad (Arabic: فراس الأبيض; born 1970) is a Lebanese politician and doctor who has been Minister of Health since 10 September 2021. [1] [2] Abiad has been considered the voice of the Lebanese health sector since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health in Lebanon. Lebanon is a small middle-income country on the Eastern Mediterranean shore with a population of around 4 million Lebanese citizens, 1.2 million Syrian refugees, and half a million Palestinian refugees. It is at the third stage of its demographic transition characterized by a decline in both fertility and mortality rates. [1]
Founded on December 7, 1946, the Lebanese Order of Physicians in Beirut is the largest medical organization and physician group in Lebanon. Its membership of 12,000 aims to pursue and promote optimal healthcare system and policies in Lebanon thus the region. Physicians are specialists who apply scientific knowledge and clinical expertise to the ...
Explosions in booby-trapped radios and pagers in Lebanon this week seriously disrupted its fragile health sector, the World Health Organization chief said on Thursday. The U.N. health agency cited ...
Israeli strikes killed more than 490 people on Monday, Lebanese health officials reported, making it the deadliest day in Lebanon since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. Monday’s strikes come after ...
September 19, 2024 at 1:43 PM. Lebanese Americans in Michigan are in mourning this week after a series of attacks over two days in Lebanon involving pagers and walkie talkies led to 32 deaths and ...
The Ministry of Public Health (Arabic: وزارة الصحّة العامة) is a ministry of the government of the Republic of Lebanon. [1] [2] As of 2024, the Minister of Health is Firass Abiad. [3] The ministry's Department of Primary Healthcare operates over 200 primary health care centres across Lebanon.
Due to the advent of the Lebanese civil war, which significantly weakened the public health care sector, the construction project had to be postponed until 1995 [2] when then prime minister Rafik Hariri laid the cornerstone; construction was finalized during 2000. [2] The hospital was inaugurated on August 2, 2004 with a cost of 121 million US ...