NNA- An honoring ceremony was held on the commemoration of the second anniversary of Pr. Khaled El-Mohtar’s passing, during which a memorial dedicated to him in Aramoun was unveiled, at the invitation of his family and the municipal council and under the patronage and in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani. The ceremony was attended by Sheikh Nazih Saab representing Sheikh Akel Chief of the Druze Unitarian Community, Dr. Naser Zaydan representing the elected deputy Taymour Jomblatt, Samir Chehayyeb representing Deputy Akram Chhayyeb, Amin Abou Zebyan representing the Chief of the Arab Tawhid Party Wiam Wahhab, University of Albany – USA representative Jennifer Walia, the chief of Irfan Establishment Sheikh Ali Zein Eddine, the president of Aramoun Municipality Fadil Jawhari, the two commissioners for social affairs and culture in the progressive socialist party Khaled El-Mohtar and Fawzi Abou Diab, presidents of municipality, and spiritual figures...

NNA- The Order of Nurses in Lebanon opened its second international conference on the International Nurses Day on May 12, in collaboration with the International Council of Nursing ICN for the first time in Lebanon under the title “Nurses leading the vision of Global Health”, under the patronage of the President of the Lebanese Republic General Michel Aoun represented by Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani at Hilton – Habtour in Sin EL Fil. The opening was attended by Deputy Basem El Chab representing Prime Minister Saad El-Hariri, Dr. Melhem Haddad representing Army Commander General Jospeh Aoun , Brigadier General  Ibrahim Hanna representing Director General of Internal security Forces Major General Imad Osman, WHO representative Dr. Gabrielle Riedner, Head of Private hospitals Syndicate Sleiman Haroun, a number of health syndicates and orders in Lebanon, Orders Of Nurses from neighboring countries,  Directors of Hospitals, deans and directors of nursing faculties, national and international associations and organizations, in addition to nurses from Lebanon and around the world...

Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani launches the “MoPH marriage offer” on a press conference held on the occasion of Thalassemia World Day, in the presence of the chairperson of Thalassemia Permanent Care Center Mrs. Mona Hrawi, Head of the Order of Physicians Raymond Sayegh, Director General of the Ministry of Public Health Dr. Walid Ammar, Former Director General of the Ministry of Social Affairs Mrs. Neemat Kanaan, ASAP Director General Mr. Khaled Kattouaa, Middle East & Africa - Novartis Oncology President Mr. Mohamed Rammal, the Managing Director of the Permanent Care Center Mrs. Michele Abi Saad, in addition to physicians and workers in healthcare sector...

NNA- Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani opened the regional conference on fragility fractures prevention organized by the Fragility Fracture Network FFN hosted by Bellevue Medical center and the multidisciplinary center for spine diseases treatment that presents a different approach to the treatment in this field, in the presence of a large number of Lebanese and international physicians and nurses...

NNA- The Lebanese society for dermatology opened its thirteenth conference for skin diseases with a forum entitled “the role and risks of media in medicine” at Phoenicia hotel under the patronage and in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani...

The Metropolitan bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch for the Archdiocese of Beirut in Lebanon, His Eminence, the Most Reverend Elias Audi received Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani who said after the visit: “I am happy to meet today HE Metropolitan Elias Audi. We have discussed a subject of extreme importance, i.e. the file of Saint George University in Beirut.”...

NNA- Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani launched a cooperation program with Hôtel-Dieu de France in IMRT at the hospital’s conference room, in the presence of the president of the USJ R.P. Salim Daccache, the Chairman of the Radiotherapy Department Pr. Elie Nasr, the president of Hôtel-Dieu de France R.P. Joseph Nassar and the Head of Private hospitals Owners Syndicate Sleiman Haroun and experts...

The Information Office of the Ministry of Public Health issued the following statement:
On 30/04/2018, the Ministry of Public Health closed and sealed the apartment of Danielle Pichon in Jemayzeh where she used to receive and treat children with special needs, for violating the general health safety requirements...

The information office of the Ministry of Public Health issued the following statement:
In the context of the 19^th annual forum of the Arab Hospitals Federation that took place on 29-30 April 2018 at the Oman Convention and was attended by Health ministers or their representatives from the different Arab countries, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health won the 2018 award for excellence and distinction in PHC in the Middle East Region...

NNA- Tripoli – Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani and the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Tripoli & North Lebanon represented by its Chairman of the board of directors Toufic Dabbousi signed a “memorandum of understanding”  leading to a partnership and collaboration between the chamber and the Ministry in order to provide health care and food safety...
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NNA- The Ministry of Public Health, the Order of physicians in Beirut, the Lebanese Society for Gastroenterology and the Lebanese society of Medical Oncology launched the National Plan on awareness and early detection of colon cancer in collaboration with the World Health Organization and Said Association for patients’ support during a conference held at the house of Physicians in Adlieh, under the patronage of Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani represented by Director General Dr. Walid Ammar...

The Information Office of the Ministry of Public Health issued the following statement:
According to what has been briefed by Ghobeiry Police Station to the Ministry on rotten meat found in Samih Al-Natour’s warehouse in Ghobeiry following an inspection conducted by the municipality, health inspectors examined the warehouse Tuesday 24/04/2018, and found rotten meat inside, which led to its closure by a decision taken by the governor of Mount-Lebanon...

The Information Office of the Ministry of Public Health issued the following statement:
After cases of scabies among the Syrian students in Abra Public School were reported to the Ministry of Public Health, the Head of PHC Department at the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Randa Hamadeh submitted the necessary medicines to the Educational Service in Saida, which, in turn, handed them over to the school’s administration that gave them with its physician to patients and organized a parents’ meeting on the treatment and hygiene instructions...

برعاية نائب رئيس مجلس الوزراء وزير الصحة العامة غسان حاصباني وبالتعاون مع بعثة الاتحاد الأوروبي في لبنان، نظمت وزارة الصحة ورشة عمل مع برنامج أداة المساعدة التقنية وتبادل المعلومات التابعة للاتحاد الأوروبي  (TAIEX)بشأن المبادئ التوجيهية للاتحاد الأوروبي المتعلقة بممارسات التصنيع الجيدة للدواء يومي ٢٤ و ٢٥ نيسان 2018 في فندق  بادوفا – سن الفيل...

The Information office of the Ministry of Public Health issued the following statement:
On World Immunization Week, the Ministry of Public Health Stressed on the importance of involving all the members of the society – municipalities, civil communities, religious figures and others – in assuming the responsibility of vaccinating children within their geographical scope to protect them from serious diseases that can be prevented with vaccine...