Year: 2007
Resolution Number: 12
Action Taken: Approved
Status:
Author(s): Ponon Dileep Kumar, MD, St. Clair County
Sponsor: Marianna Spanaki-Varelas, MD
On behalf of: IMG Section
Committee: C (Internal Affairs and Public Service) [Pre-2014]
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to seek U.S. State Department intervention in a recent case in which the Libyan courts have sentenced six health care professionals (five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor) to death for their purported role in the spread of AIDS in a Benghazi children’s hospital.
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to seek U.S. State Department intervention in a recent case in which the Libyan courts have sentenced six health care professionals (five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor) to death for their purported role in the spread of AIDS in a Benghazi children’s hospital.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Support Fair Trial for Accused Health Professionals in Libya