Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab on Thursday presided over a meeting of the Ministerial Committee for Social Justice.
The meeting was attended by ministers of communications, planning, urban development and slums, health, housing, supply, social solidarity and international cooperation.
The meeting tackled a number of key files, mainly development of slums, street children, national program for the treatment of hepatic viruses patients and health-care program for pensioners.
Mahlab stressed the need to set a timetable for the implementation of the slums' development plans.