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Throughout the pandemic,
Rafik Hariri University Hospital has treated patients with Covid-19 while keeping up its pediatric, cancer care, surgical, and other medical services.
But the hospital doesn t just care for the patients within its walls. It also provides ongoing chronic disease care to patients who rely on the hospital for their treatment. The majority of the patients who are treated here are of the medium and low economic class, said Dr.
Akram Echtay, a professor of medicine and head of the hospital s endocrinology division. Each month, they come here and they receive the medications they are in need of - if they are available, because sometimes they are not available.
In Lebanon, Insulin and Other Chronic Disease Medications Are Hard to Come By
The economic collapse, Covid-19, and the Beirut port explosion have all affected Lebanon s once enviable health care system.
A pharmacist at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, dispenses medication in February 2021. Direct Relief has been able to provide critical donations to the facility since 2020 s explosion. (Photo by Francesca Volpi for Direct Relief)
Throughout the pandemic, Rafik Hariri University Hospital has treated patients with Covid-19 while keeping up its pediatric, cancer care, surgical, and other medical services.
But the hospital doesn’t just care for the patients within its walls. It also provides ongoing chronic disease care to patients who rely on the hospital for their treatment.
Lebanon is no longer a failing state. That is now history. The country has long hit rock bottom, collapsing from one low to another due to a variety of factors that includes poor government, corruption, nepotism, and a political elite that refuses to step down or take responsibility for failure.
The tiny Mediterranean state, once hailed as Switzerland of the Middle East, has failed to meet the demands of angry protesters, who took to the streets in October 2019, demanding better pay, more jobs, and rehaul of the sectarian political system. It failed at unblocking an $11 billion loan package from international donors, promised in France two years ago. It then failed at getting a smaller amount from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and thus was unable to save its once thriving, now collapsing banking sector. More recently it has also failed at identifying who was responsible for the massive explosion at the port of Beirut last August, which destroyed half the city and killed ove