For weeks, there have been many complaints concerning the excessive incidence of jaundice in Tripoli.
Jaundice, or the so-called White Yolk illness, is brought on by the formation of an extreme quantity of a yellowish pigment within the blood known as bilirubin, which results in its accumulation beneath the pores and skin and within the eyes, ensuing within the yellowing of the pores and skin and eyes.
Pharmacists Syndicate, Dr. Joe Salloum, known as on Monday for declaring a state of well being emergency as a result of the circumstances exceeded 250 in Tripoli and the neighborhood, and hospitals should be ready to obtain sufferers.
Dr. Salloum defined that vaccines are lacking as a result of they’re nonetheless supported, and there’s a important delay in importing them, stressing that the significance lies in opening particular credit.
The Head of the Parliamentary Well being Committee, Dr. Bilal Abdullah, adopted up on this situation and made contacts with Officers within the Ministry of Public Well being and the Well being Authority in North.
Accordingly, all contaminated circumstances are monitored, and work is underway to search out out the supply of air pollution and monitor the security of ingesting water.
The matter will stay beneath follow-up by the Parliamentary Well being Committee.
