Executive Magazine
Changes and challenges hospital infrastructure and presence of heavily qualified medical personnel, Lebanon may well lose this title soon, due to a series of unfavorable factors, including the economic crisis, the August 4 Beirut port explosion, and the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the efforts of its health care personnel to provide adequate medical care and the current support of the Central Bank of Lebanon by providing dollar subsidies to importers at a fixed rate of 1,500 LBP to the dollar, Lebanon’s health care infrastructure is currently in the midst of its worst crisis in modern history with no clear end in sight.