The Libyan Minister of Transportation, Mohammed Al-Shuhoubi, who is also the Head of the Committee of Revising and Registering Libyan State Debts to Tunisia, discussed Monday with the Undersecretary of Industry, Mines and Energy, Ahlam Al-Baji, the outstanding debts the Libya needed to pay and the mechanisms of payment.
The Libyan Ministry of Transportation said the two sides had discussed the debts related to electricity consumption, civil aviation, and medical treatment centers and hospitals in Tunisia.
The Committee discussed last year the facilitation of medical treatment of Libyans in Tunisian hospitals. The discussion came in a meeting in Tunis following the announcement of Tunisian hospitals and clinics in mid-January 2023 the halting of the admission of new Libyan patients due to the accumulated debts.
Tunisian medical centers and hospitals even threatened at the time to discharge Libyan patients in a protest against the two-year unpaid debts by the Libyan state.
The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, said at the end of 2023 that his government was going to pay debts worth 250 million dollars (medical treatment and electricity consumption debts) to Tunisia before the year’s end.
