A quarter of nurseries in Lebanon do not meet the conditions … and the deputies move

Zainab Hammoud wrote in “Al -Akhbar”: Of the 460 licensed nurseries in Lebanon, 120 nurseries lack the minimum quality standards stipulated in the “Carroll” initiative, which means in practice that a quarter of licensed nurseries do not meet the required conditions.

While the Minister of Health, Rakan Nasser al -Din, gave these nurseries a time period for training under the severity of their closure, it is spread like wildfire in the wildfire, numbers of unnoticed nurseries that in turn lack the simplest public safety standards necessary for children’s care, which is reflected in the high number of complaints made against the nurseries to the circle of maternity and child in the Ministry of Health. Concerning the neglect of children, or harming them in moderate degrees. ” These cases are referred to one of the three associations approved by the Ministry of Justice (protection, dignity, Upel), while immediately referred to the judiciary cases where deaths are registered within the nurseries. Representative Bilal Abdullah believes that “the general situation in nurseries imposes urgent intervention, as the role of custody in Lebanon has turned into a wide and disturbing sector, which is no longer being seized by just decisions or decrees. What is required is a clear law that regulates the sector at the level of licenses, mechanisms for monitoring, and raising the level of services, in a manner that ensures the protection of children and securing health, food, social and psychological care for them in the absence of their relatives, and gives at the same time the reassurance to the people, especially working women. The Health and Labor Committee, and perhaps the Administration and Justice Committee. He adds: “If the Ministry of Health did not touch the seriousness of the situation and the need for a quick treatment, it would not have interacted with us positively during the formulation of the law proposal. Or is the basic problem lies in Decree 4876 related to the opening and investment of nurseries, on which the Ministry of Health is based, and in the weak will or the ability to implement it? Is it not useful to address what prevents decrees and decisions, such as the shortage of cadres responsible for censorship and inspection, for example? Mansour notes that «we have 26 doctors distributed on the districts, that is, only one health observer in each region must examine all relevant institutions, and therefore he cannot do more than an annual visit to each custody, except for the cases we received complaints.