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Dozens of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel rallied Thursday outside the Central Bank in the Lebanese capital of Beirut after declaring a two-day general strike to protest rapidly deteriorating economic conditions. The strike was declared by two medical professionals’ unions — The Syndicates of Doctors in Beirut and the North, and the Syndicate of Private Hospital Owners — which said they could no longer put up with Central Bank policies that have allowed banks to impose random capital controls and other restrictions. During the strike, which ends Friday, only emergency cases and dia…