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| Lebanon hospital ejects wounded Syrians |
| 2013-07-16 |
| [Al Ahram] A Lebanese hospital has "forcibly" ejected 30 Syrians patients maimed in violence in their country, an activist said on Monday, while the hospital said they were discharged over unpaid bills. "The Alameddin hospital in Minieh threw out 30 maimed Syrians from Qusayr" on Sunday, Khaled Mustafa, director of an office helping refugees in northern Leb, told AFP. The hospital, in northern Leb, has hosted dozens of Syrians from the town of Qusayr, a former rebel stronghold that fell to government troops last month, prompting an exodus of residents. "They were forcibly expelled and were insulted," Mustafa said, adding that "80 percent of them were fitted with splints because of their serious fractures." "The splints were removed without any concern for their health." "They wouldn't even let them take their personal belongings or their x-rays," he added. Mustafa said the patients -- some of whom were observing the fasting month of Ramadan -- were left to sit on a pavement for two hours before Red Thingy ambulances arrived to take them to another hospital in the nearby city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Contacted by AFP, the hospital management declined to comment, but an employee speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... said the patients were made to go because they failed to pay their bills. The employee also said the small hospital in northern Leb had become "a kind of centre for refugees fleeing Syria." "The whole hospital was taken up with Syrians and was unable to assist Lebanese in the region in case of emergency," the employee said. Mustafa rejected those claims, insisting that hospital fees had been paid, and that his office had purchased medicine and equipment for the hospital worth 34,000 dollars. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 MY brother, is a thief. When MOM died her will and safety deposit box vanished. You praise your brother, not I. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-07-16 12:01 |
| #4 All muslims are brothers. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-07-16 10:37 |
| #3 discharged over unpaid bills we've all been there the presenting of the bill.... |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-07-16 07:51 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823 2013-07-16 05:14 |
| #1 A Lebanese hospital has "forcibly" ejected 30 Syrians patients they said on Monday, while the hospital said they were discharged over unpaid bills. NO DEADBEATS, LEAVE NOW. (Ooh, Obama and Obamacare thought only America was affected) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-07-16 02:05 |