Tripoli, 22 December:
A team of Tunisian doctors has travelled to the southern town of Kufra to carry out medical checkups and . . .[restrict]surgery on patients from the area, Libyan news agency LANA reported.
The group, which is made up of eight doctors with different specialisms, will be start work today at Kufra’s general hospital, giving consultations and performing surgery on patients there and will stay for one week. It is understood that this is the first ever visit by a foreign medical mission to Kufra’s hospital.
Kufra was declared part of a closed military zone in southern Libya by the General National Congress on Monday, and borders with Sudan, Chad, Niger and Algeria have been closed temporarily.
Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said that the measures were part of efforts to restore security to southern parts of Libya, where the smuggling of people, goods and weapons across the borders has been a problem in the past.
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