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Lebanon s COVID-19 spike overwhelms battered hospitals and exhausted doctors
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Lebanon’s COVID-19 spike overwhelms battered hospitals and exhausted doctors
. A volunteer from Lebanese Red Cross sanitizes his colleague at LAU Medical Center ? Rizk Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, January 16, 2021. Picture taken January 16, 2021. REUTERS/Ayat Basma
BEIRUT (Reuters) – COVID-19 patients wait on pavements outside hospitals in Beirut, where emergency rooms are packed and intensive care beds full.
Inside, exhausted healthcare workers are succumbing themselves – doctors at one hospital, asking not to be named, said around 40% of staff were sick or in isolation.
Countries worldwide are feeling the strain, but few have had to deal with anything like Lebanon’s crisis, where the pandemic piled in on top of a financial collapse and a huge port blast in August that had already brought the health system to its knees.
INSIGHT-The blast that blew away Lebanon s faith in itself Reuters 12/24/2020
By Samia Nakhoul
BEIRUT, Dec 24 (Reuters) - They gather in groups, wearing black, in the shadow of buildings gutted by the explosion that shook this city on Aug. 4. Men, women and children from Christian and Muslim sects cradle portraits of their dead.
Beirut has been blown back to the vigils of its 1975-1990 civil war. Then, families demanded information about relatives who had disappeared. Many never found out what happened, even as the country was rebuilt. Today s mourners know what happened; they just don t know why.
Four months on, authorities have not held anyone responsible for the blast that killed 200 people, injured 6,000 and left 300,000 homeless. Many questions remain unanswered. Chief among them: Why was highly flammable material knowingly left at the port, in the heart of the city, for nearly seven years?
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