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Top Lebanese hospitals fight exhausting battle against virus
Lebanon s hospitals are on the brink: Unable to keep up with coronavirus patients, they have run out of beds, oxygen tanks, ventilators and medical staff
By FAY ABUELGASIM Associated Press
January 23, 2021, 8:34 AM
• 5 min read
The Associated Press
A medical staffer looks at a COVID-19 patient at the intensive care unit of the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Hospitals in Lebanon are reaching full capacity amid a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases across the crisis-hit Mediterranean nation even amid strict lockdown. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
The Lebanese government is enforcing its toughest lockdown yet a 24-hour curfew for 11 days. But hospitals are still buckling under the weight of patients.
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