Jordan's health and water ministers resigned on Sunday following the outbreak of hundreds of cases of water-borne diarrhoea and fever in the north of the country, Prime Minister Maaruf Bakhit said.
Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday accepted the resignation of the health and water ministers, state-run Petra news agency reported after a senior official said they quit over a water scandal.
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AMMAN: Jordan’s Prime Minister Marouf Bakheet fired the health and water ministers yesterday after hundreds of people were hospitalised suffering from diarrhoea after drinking contaminated tap water.
Jordan's Prime Minister Marouf Bakheet fired the health and water ministers on Sunday after hundreds of people were hospitalised suffering from diarrhoea after drinking contaminated tap water.
Source: Reuters AMMAN, July 29 (Reuters) - Jordan's Prime Minister Marouf Bakheet fired the health and water ministers on Sunday after hundreds of people were hospitalised suffering from diarrhoea after drinking ...
Amman - Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday issued a decree commuting the death verdicts issued against seven Islamists involved in fatal riots in the southern city of Maan in late 2002 to 15-years imprisonment, a royal statement. The measure comes a...
Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday accepted the resignation of Minister of Water and Irrigation Engineer Mohammad Thafer Al Alem and Minister of Health Saad Kharabsheh as of July 29, 2007. The two stepped down on the background of water contamination and subsequent health complications for more than 1,000 people in the north of the kingdom.