The LAF Commander in chief, General Joseph Aoun, received in his office in Yarzeh the president of the Lebanese Association of the Knights of Malta, Marwan Sehnaoui, accompanied by a delegation of the association, following the signing of a cooperation protocol between the army health services and the association, with the aim of supporting military dispensaries and improving their performance, thus enabling them to provide the most effective health care to their beneficiaries.
The protocol had previously been signed, in the presence of General Elias Chamieh, member of the military council, representing the LAF Commander in chief, by Mr. Sehnaoui on behalf of the association, and General Georges Youssef, chief of the army health services.
The signing of the agreement stems from the success of a pilot project launched in a joint center in Rmeich, a village in southern Lebanon, and aims to broaden this experience and lay the foundations for its development, according to the Lebanese Association of the Knights of Malta, who added, in a statement, that its cooperation with the army “rests on mutual trust between the two institutions working for the respect of human dignity”.
The Lebanese Association of the Knights of Malta has been active in Lebanon for over 40 years. It operates today thanks to a network of around thirty humanitarian programs, through which it helps to support the needy and those who suffer difficult conditions, without any discrimination and in cooperation with all religious communities, in respect of their specificities.
The association has, spread throughout the Lebanese territory, 9 primary health care centers, 3 care centers for the elderly and 6 mobile medical units, in addition to a certain number of activities that target young people and differently-abled persons.
