The Minister of Labor, Lamia Yammine, chaired a meeting in her office in the ministry, devoted to discussing the mechanism of obtaining the “Corona” vaccine for foreign workers and workers on Lebanese soil in the framework of work to achieve community immunity.
The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the National Committee for Managing the Vaccine File in Lebanon, Dr. Abdel-Rahman Al-Bizri, and representatives of the Ministry, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Amel Foundation, and the “Caritas” Foundation.
The Minister of Labor, Lamia Yammine, chaired a meeting in her office in the ministry, devoted to discussing the mechanism of obtaining the “Corona” vaccine for foreign workers and workers on Lebanese soil in the framework of work to achieve community immunity.
The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the National Committee for Managing the Vaccine File in Lebanon, Dr. Abdel-Rahman Al-Bizri, and representatives of the Ministry, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Amel Foundation, and the “Caritas” Foundation.
After the meeting, Dr. El-Bizri said: “The meeting with His Excellency the Minister of Labor, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and some civil society institutions, was aimed at developing a real, integrated and comprehensive plan to immunize a large group present in the Lebanese society, which is the foreign workers.
In Lebanon, some foreign workers are registered and work legally, and some workers are legally bound by a legal reality that made them illegal in their residency, which makes it difficult to count and determine their number.
He added: “The work plan will focus on several stages: First: Determine the size of this issue, that is, the amount of the number of foreign workers that the Ministry of Labor has, with grace, sufficient and complete information about it, in addition to communicating with the embassies of these countries and the International Labor Organization.
Second: Dividing the approach mechanism for this issue to include the groups that are more vulnerable to epidemics, similar to the national plan prepared for the Lebanese society.
Third: Inviting many institutions and bodies with which foreign workers work to contribute to this issue, because Lebanon, as a free and independent country, is responsible for all those on its territory, and this is an integral part of Lebanese sovereignty. “
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