The Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbiebah stressed the need for setting standards and criteria for those who will be sent abroad for medical treatment, urging for forming central and branch committees to sift through the process, giving priority for tumor patients.

These remarks came in a meeting for Dbiebah with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister-designate of Health, the Minister-designate of Finance, the Minister of State for Communication and Political Affairs, the Head of the Military Medicine Service, the Director of the Medical Services Support and Development Service, and the Chairman of the Committee for Reviewing Treatment Debt Abroad, in addition to a number of directors of technical departments as well as a delegate of the medicine and emergency apparatus.