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Private hospitals in Lebanon facing closure due to a lack of funds

Private hospitals in Lebanon on the brink of closure as funds dry up amidst the country's financial crisis. Critical equipment and drugs remain out of reach due to limitations on cash withdrawals, leaving hospitals unable to protect workers' rights and risking a collapse of the health sector. Urgent intervention from the Lebanese Central Bank is needed to avert this crisis.

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On Thursday, Lebanon's private hospital syndicate warned that several of the country's hospitals face closure due to a lack of foreign money needed to purchase equipment and drugs.

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Suleiman Haroun, president of the syndicate, stated during a sit-in protest by representatives of hospitals near Lebanon's central bank that "hospitals are unable to get U.S. dollar monies to buy critical equipment and materials due to existing limits on cash withdrawals by banks."

Hospitals seem unable to protect their workers' rights due to a lack of funds, according to Haroun.

He requested the Lebanese Central Bank to release the cash of Lebanon's hospitals to the banks in order to avert a health sector collapse.

Lebanese companies and people alike are feeling the effects of the central bank's limitations on withdrawals of the US dollar as a result of the country's prolonged financial crisis.

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