Day: June 6, 2021

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Health

Court hears testimony of anesthesiologist in Salt hospital case

The Amman Magistrates Court, on Sunday, held its 20th session on the Salt hospital case, where eight people died due to a lack of oxygen.

In a public session, the court, chaired by Judge Odai Freihat, heard a new prosecution witness; an anesthesiologist who works at the hospital. The witness testified that the oxygen was cut off from its main source on the morning of the incident, March 13th.

The court adjourned the session to next Thursday (June 10) to hear new prosecution witnesses, which are expected to reach 49 in the case, in addition to the testimony of 9 experts. A total of 66 prosecution and defense witnesses were heard by the court so far.

In its previous session, the court decided to add an eighth count of involuntary manslaughter after another person passed away recently.

Last March, the Public Prosecution opened an investigation into an oxygen supply outage at the Salt government hospital, prompting the arrest of 13 Health Ministry officials, who were released after the 30-day custody period ended.

Source: Jordan News Agency

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Health

50K Jordanians received COVID-19 jabs in private hospitals

Private hospitals have given the COVID-19 vaccine to more than 50,000 citizens as part of their participation in the national immunization campaign, said Fawzi Hammouri, Head of the Private Hospitals Association.

In a statement, Hammouri said that 28 private hospitals are participating in the national vaccination campaign and have vaccination centers for this purpose, adding that the services are provided free of charge.

The private hospital sector, he added, will continue its participation to support the efforts of the Ministry of Health to contain and address the virus by vaccinating the largest possible number of citizens and residents in Jordan after registering on the vaccine platform and relieving hospitals and government centers participating in the campaign.

He pointed to the cooperation and coordination between the Association, the Ministry of Health and the National Center for Security and Crisis Management, which contributed to facilitating the participation of private hospitals in the vaccination campaign.

Source: Jordan News Agency

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Judicial

Gov’t says won’t allow illegal gatherings, incitement

The government on Sunday said that the past few days have seen illegal gatherings and calls for assemblies threatening social peace and security and vowed that it will not tolerate or allow such acts to continue.

The Cabinet said in a statement that it has been monitoring illegal gatherings in the past few days which “saw violations, incitement against the state, threats to social peace and assaults on the law and security forces”, urging citizens to distance themselves from such acts.

It indicated that concerned authorities “have exercised the highest degree of self-restraint towards these activities, that included direct incitement, which is a violation and breach of the law, hoping that those who fuel such behaviors will come to their senses and return to the path of truth and righteousness”.

“With great regret, what we saw last night of attempts to mobilize people and attack Public Security Department personnel, as well as inflammatory rhetoric and behaviors, was a full legal violation that affect the foundations of our country and its constitutional bedrocks and our inherited literature since the establishment of the state,” according to the statement.

The Cabinet stressed that the Ministry of Interior will never allow any gatherings, events, erection of traditional tents or other platforms, and will deal with utmost firmness to enforce the law and prevent these dangerous inflammatory activities, including words and behaviors, that violate the law and the Constitution and tamper with the security of society.

The Cabinet called on citizens across the nation to distance themselves from participation in such inciting and illegal gatherings.

Source: Jordan News Agency