In response to current falsehoods on the efficaciousness and safety of the COVID-19 immunizing agent, LAU controls a conference at the LAU Medical Center-Rizk Hospital to affirm its endorsement of the national vaccination campaign, on Tuesday, Gregorian calendar month sixteen, 2021.
Speaking aboard LAU doctors, President Michel E. Mawad declared that “wear all known as upon to place associate degree finish to the present pandemic that has caused suffering to humanity on numerous levels by ensuring that each one those counseled to receive the immunizing agent do this.”
Refuting false claims concerning the immunizing agent, he confident attendees that the event method and also the testing results it yielded were at intervals the norms of older vaccines, as vetted by international bodies, as well as yank and European higher-up organizations.
“As for virus mutations and variants, new or improved vaccines may be developed,” added Dr. Mawad. “We tend to might have to urge immunized per annum, or take a booster, that solely amplifies the necessity to start the method as early as attainable.”
In this regard, he counseled the Lebanese Government’s decision to secure a lot of vaccines to achieve herd immunity before the top of 2021, and shield its individuals against COVID-19.
“We invite the govt to extend the personal sector’s participation within the mass vaccination campaign, through a clear framework involving university medical centers,” he suggested, stressing the necessity to consolidate all efforts to with success contain this sickness within the country.
From the terrible onset of the sickness in Lebanon, LAU has been on the frontlines. apart from taking the required measures to receive COVID-19 patients at its heart, the university launched an associate degree in progress national PCR-testing campaign and a free-of-charge Coronavirus Telecare clinic and shaped a National COVID-19 Health Response Committee composed of a variety of its doctors.
More initiatives are undertaken by LAU, declared Dr. Mawad, with the support of the university’s physicians in attendance: Chief medical man, Head of a medical specialty and Clinical prof Georges Ghanem, Chair of general medicine and Clinical prof Jacques Mokhbat, Head of Infectious Diseases and Clinical prof Roula Husni Samaha, and Clinical prof of Infectious Diseases Pakistani monetary unit Farra.
A fundraising campaign, launched on St Valentine’s Day by the university, aims to assist procure a lot of vaccines for Lebanon. The national arrangement has thus far secured solely a part of the full desires of the population to realize herd immunity. LAU has already received a generous contribution of $1 million from man. Bahaa Hariri toward increasing the provision of vaccines to Lebanon.
Acknowledging LAU’s “vital work,” Mr. Hariri noted the importance of guaranteeing that everybody “is ready to get a secure and effective immunizing agent. we’ve got seen the devastation this pandemic has formed on families and friends. I think that by returning along we can every do our half to support the health and welfare of the Lebanese individuals.” Appealing for wider support, he added, “this is simply the beginning of this immunizing agent campaign and that I encourage others to success and gift also.”
Furthermore, the anticipated gap of the LAU Medical Center-St. John’s Hospital in Jounieh in March 2021 can fortify the battle against the sickness. within the initial section, the middle is dedicated to receiving and treating COVID-19 patients. unfinished a allow from the govt, it would even be used as a further vaccination center.
“I iterate the readiness and disposition of our medical centers to affix within the ministry’s commendable efforts to immunize the Lebanese individuals against the pandemic so that we tend to may match along toward one goal,” complete Dr. Mawad. – LAU
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