A story went viral on social media platforms stating that a toddler fell from the third floor of a building in the northern city of Tripoli and that a number of hospitals in the city refused to admit him.

In this regard, the Lebanese Red Cross Secretary General George Kettani denied in a statement to LBCI these claims, explaining that the child did fall from the third floor, but the hospitals in Tripoli do not have a pediatric departments to treat his case, which forced them to admit him to the Islamic Hospital in the city awaiting his transfer to Beirut.

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He added that the hospitalization director at the Health Ministry Joseph al-Helo has been contacted to book a room at the pediatric division at the American University of Beirut Medical Center.

Kettani noted that the child is suffering from severe injuries related to the brain and skull.