Support Fair Trial for Accused Health Professionals in Libya

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.

Fiscal Note: NULL

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