Families and kidney patients carried out a sit-in in front of Al-Manla Hospital in Tripoli, to protest against raising the dialysis fee to twenty dollars, with the participation of the head of the Federation of Workers and Employees Unions in the North, Captain Shadi Al-Sayed.
The people affirmed that they are “unable to bear this financial development,” wishing the Minister of Health in the caretaker government, Firas Al-Abyad, “to have a white footprint in this field.”
Al-Sayed stressed that “human health comes first before quarantine and before conferences and all indications,” surprisingly, “the refusal to perform dialysis for any patient by any hospital.”
And he held “the responsibility for the health risk that he will be exposed to to the concerned hospital director,” stressing that “cancer and kidney patients are a red line, and patients must be supported by all means.”
