Salam at Hospital for Stomach Virus
Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam was admitted to the American University of Beirut Medical Center after falling ill on Sunday afternoon.
"It was revealed that Salam was suffering from a stomach virus,” the state-run National News Agency said.
Radio Voice of Lebanon (100.5) remarked that Salam had fainted when he was offering condolences at a residence in the Beirut neighborhood of Verdun, which required transferring him to a hospital.
Meanwhile, radio Voice of Lebanon (93.3) noted that the premier-designate is in a stable condition.
The NNA later added that caretaker PM Najib Miqati and ex-premier Fouad Sanioura visited Salam at the AUBMC to check-up on his condition.
"Salam also received phones calls from President Michel Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri, former Speaker Hussein al-Husseini, al-Mustaqbal party head Saad Hariri and other political personalities,” the same source noted.
Salam has been trying since April to come up with a line-up but several conditions set by the rival parties have brought his task to a stalemate.
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