Health workers sit together inside Saint George Hospital University Medical center, in Beirut, Lebanon January 15, 2021. Picture taken January 15, 2021. REUTERS/Issam Abdallah
“It is basically from one catastrophe to another,” said Charaf Abou Charaf, the head of Lebanon’s doctors syndicate. “We called all the civic groups, politicians, even the health minister, no one could help,” she told Reuters.In the end, she took matters into her own hands, got her own oxygen tank and hooked it up to her grandfather lying on a stretcher outside the hospital. One doctor helped out by snaking an extension power cable out into the street.
In response to a question about why he did not isolate at home, a ministry advisor only shared a picture of Hassan signing papers in hospital with a thin tube hooked to his nose, without elaboration. Lebanon has also signed up for 2.73 million doses through COVAX - the global scheme backed by the World Health Organization to provide vaccines to poorer countries - though it has not said yet when they will arrive.
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