World Bank and IFRC Support Independent Monitoring of COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign in Lebanon
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BEIRUT, February 12, 2021 The World Bank and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have signed today an agreement for the independent monitoring of Lebanon’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Under this agreement, IFRC acting as the Third Party Monitoring Agency (TPMA), will be in charge of independently monitoring the compliance of the vaccination deployment with national plans, international standards and World Bank requirements in order to ensure safe handling of the vaccines, as well as fair and equitable access to all.
According to the agreement, IFRC’s oversight and supervision will cover COVID-19 vaccine supply chain management as well as vaccine administration at vaccination sites from the technical, environmental and social safeguards perspectives. This includes but is not limited to storage, stock and temperature maintenance across th
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Medical staff in an intensive care unit for coronavirus patients at Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut. In January 2021 alone, Lebanon recorded 1,627 deaths related to COVID-19. This is more than the total number of deaths 1,455 recorded in 2020, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health.
The number of COVID-19 deaths has increased by 50 times since the Beirut port explosion compared to the total number of deaths recorded in the first six months of the pandemic. These numbers should be a wake-up call for the country’s leaders to invest in public health if they want to avert future health crises, says Project HOPE.
Six months after explosion, Lebanon’s health care sector on verge of collapse
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The number of COVID-19 deaths has increased by 50 times since the Beirut port explosion compared to the total number of deaths recorded in the first six months of the pandemic. These numbers should be a wake-up call for the country’s leaders to invest in public health if they want to avert future health crises, says Project HOPE.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed major deficiencies within the health care sector in Lebanon,” says Rabih Torbay, CEO and President of Project HOPE. “By not investing in its public health system, Lebanon is struggling to meet the demands and needs of the population during a pandemic, and as a result, lives are lost every day.”
The World Bank announced Thursday it will put $34 million into a programme to provide coronavirus vaccines for more than two million people in Lebanon, which extended on Thursday a nationwide lockdown by a week to February 8.
The World Bank approved on Thursday the reallocation of $34 million to fund the procurement of Covid-19 vaccine for Lebanon, which is struggling to contain the number of coronavirus infections. The.