Joint Committee approves bill deeming healthcare providers who succumbed to Covid-19 martyrs, tweets Araji

  • Date: 28-Apr-2021
  • Source: National News Agency - Lebanon
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:Lebanon
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Joint Committee approves bill deeming healthcare providers who succumbed to Covid-19 martyrs, tweets Araji

NNA - Parliamentary Health Committee Head, MP Assem Araji, on Wednesday said via twitter that the Joint Parliamentary Committees have approved a bill proposal, submitted by members of the Health Parliamentary Committee, to consider doctors, nurses, paramedics, and medical assistants, who died while performing their duties combatting the Coronavirus pandemic, of a similar rank to that of a Lebanese army martyr, provided that their families could also benefit from the financial and moral benefits provided to the families of Army martyrs.