Lebanon's deepening economic crisis has piled pressure on hospitals, leaving them ill-equipped to face any new wave of the coronavirus...
Lebanon’s deepening economic crisis has piled pressure on hospitals, leaving them ill-equipped to face any new wave of the coronavirus, a top hospital director has warned.
“All hospitals… are now less prepared than they were during the wave at the start of the year,” said Firass Abiad, the manager of the largest public hospital in the country battling Covid.“Medical and nursing staff have left, medicine that was once available has run out,” and ever lengthening cuts to the mains power supply have left hospitals under constant threat.“We only get two to three hours of mains electricity, and for the rest of the time it’s up to the generators,” Abiad said.
Huge demand for the increasingly scarce commodity has driven up prices by more than 80 percent since June 17.“Some days it’s antibiotics, others it’s anaesthesics,” the hospital chief said. After dropping over the spring, Covid cases are on the rise again as Lebanese expats flood home for the summer, and many gather with family and friends.
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