The Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, has agreed to prepare a national treatment program for muscular dystrophy.

According to Dbeibah’s decision, which was published by the Ministry of Health on Sunday, the program is concerned with providing patients’ needs, in addition to restricting them to a unified system, supervising the distribution of therapeutic medications to them, and keeping up with modern scientific studies. 

During Dbeibah’s meeting with the Muscular Dystrophy Patients Organization, it was decided to continue conducting genetic analyzes for patients and their families according to the established context, and to urgently complete treatment for cases less than two years old.

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