Walid Alami News Today

Lebanon has been suffering from a series of crises, starting with the ammonium nitrate explosion near the airport, which killed 218 people, 7,000 injured, 300,000 people homeless, $15 billion worth of property damaged in August 2020. This had led to protests and an economic meltdown, no prime minister

DUBAI: When Lebanese cardiologist Walid Alami, 59, was 19 years old he worked as a volunteer in an emergency operating room and helped dozens of people who were wounded during Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war. After a massive explosion tore through Beirut’s port on Aug. 4, 2020, he once again found himself in the thick of life-saving emergency action.