Published date: 3 March 2021 14:17 UTC
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Last update: 3 weeks ago
The death of a Lebanese x-ray technician and former paramedic due to Covid-19 last week has shed new light on the plight of overwhelmed health workers battling the pandemic in the cash-strapped country.
Tributes to Fadi Abou Hassan, with an image of him in Lebanese Red Cross garb where he once volunteered, have poured out across social media, days after it was revealed that the health ministry bypassed the country's rollout policy to vaccinate a handful of MPs.
'This is shameful. They are frontline workers who protect us,'
- Sharaf Abou Sharaf, head of the Doctors’ Syndicate