Caretaker Public Health Minister, Hamad Hassan, considered that “the adoption of development and health decentralization is an urgent necessity to stabilize the citizen on his land and reduce displacement.”

“It is clear that the rentier policy has failed over time to protect this country,” he said.

Hassan’s words came during his meeting today with a delegation from the region of Akroum, who visited him at his Baalbek residence to thank him for approving the establishment of a governmental emergency hospital in the town of al-Sahleh.

The Health Minister considered that establishing said hospital in such a deprived region is a governmental and institutional duty, par excellence. “We are carrying out our institutional and humanitarian duty, and we have chosen the most appropriate location for the hospital in al-Sahleh after a field inspection of the site, being an intermediate location that combines Mount Akroum, Wadi Khaled, Andaqit, al-Bireh, al-Mashta and other areas,” he said.

Touching on the medicine crisis, Hassan emphasized that the Ministry of Health is not a side in this matter, but rather coordinates between those concerned to provide medicine to the citizen. “The Central Bank’s drug support and commitment is a right of citizens,” Hassan maintained, stressing that “transparent cooperation and positive mutual interaction between all parties is the only way to alleviate the pain and difficult challenge in the pharmaceutical issue for the citizen.”

“The medicine issue must not be a subject of polarization,” Hassan underlined, noting that “the campaign that is being waged is not innocent, as the health of the citizen is not a point of view, but a duty that the state provides through its financial institutions.”

Source: National News Agency