Hospitals are running out of medicines. Staff members are leaving. And some parents will even leave a newborn stranded in the intensive care unit if they can t afford the fees for additional care.
Hospitals are running out of medicines. Staff members are leaving. And some parents will even leave a newborn stranded in the intensive care unit if they can't afford the fees for additional care.
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Doctors treat patients in cars as Lebanon s hospitals buckle amid a surge of Covid patients We re getting to the point of true disaster , a doctor warns, as extreme lockdown and economic crisis threaten civil unrest
1 February 2021 • 12:00pm
A patient treated in their car at the emergency care unit at St George s Hospital
Credit: Nabil Mounzer/Shutterstock
Doctors in Lebanon are treating patients in parked cars, outside hospitals, in corridors, cupboards and canteens as doctors warn the country could be on its way towards a dreaded “Italian scenario” as the death rate continues to rise.
“We had no room in the hospital, we didn’t even have enough stretchers - so for three or four days in January we were treating Covid patients in their cars in the car park,” said Dr Andre Kozaily, the director of Bouar governmental hospital in Kesrouane, a 30-minute drive north of the capital, Beirut. The hospital had just weeks before been turned into a Covid-only facility.