The Information office of the Ministry of Public Health issued the following statement:
As a follow-up to the cases reported in Kfarabida, District of Batroun, which were said to be communicable epidemics, causing panic among people, the MOPH National Committee for Communicable diseases presided by director General Dr. Walid Ammar held an emergency meeting and studied all the medical reports and analyses...

The Information office of the Ministry of Public health issued the following statement:
Kfarabida village in Batroun was in state of panic during the last 72 hours after an old man passed on and an old woman experienced the same symptoms, which led her to intensive care and sparked rumors.

Caretaker deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani participated in an awareness day on the “risks of tobacco and smoking” organized by the Smoking cessation center- Pulmonology and reanimation center at Hotel-Dieu de France in collaboration with the maternity and pediatrics Department on World No Tobacco Day. Minister Hasbani walked through the exhibition organized on the outer yard of the hospital. The exhibition included awareness activities on how to adopt a healthy lifestyle away from smoking. Hasbani had a spirography that showed his breathing normal, knowing that he is a non-smoker. He sat also with children who had recreational activity where the exhibition took place to shed light on the relationship between the pregnant woman and the children...

Saint George University Hospital in Achrafieh opened this afternoon the new nuclear medicine center with the blessing of Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Beirut in Lebanon, His Eminence, the Most Reverend Elias Audi and in the presence of the Minister of Public Health Ghassan Hasbani, the president and Director General of the hospital Dr. Edgard Joujou, Chief of medical radiology department Dr. Raja Kachouh, the Medical director Dr. Alexander Nehmeh, members of the hospital’s board of directors, physicians and administrative staff...

Dr Tedros announced his decision to keep the Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergency programme (IOAC) and the composition of the membership for 2018-2020...

Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani received in his office at the Ministry the delegation of the constituent body of the syndicate of the gov. hospital employees in Lebanon and the Head of the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers Dr. Bechara el-Asmar and informed them of the cabinet’s decision on their inclusion in the salary scale and promised them to follow up with the Ministry of Finance the establishment of scales pursuant to the law and in preparation for the issuance of the necessary decrees...

Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani took part in a workshop organized by the Ministry of Public Health during which medical specialists provided practical advice for the fasting in the holy month of Ramadan, in particular people with diabetes and high blood pressure...

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:..

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...