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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.
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Amid Corona Crisis, Private Hospitals in Lebanon Not Doing Enough, Expert Says Daniel Sonnenfeld
More than 60 private hospitals have yet to accept COVID-19 patients
Lebanon, which has reported 298,913 coronavirus cases and 3,031 deaths since the start of the pandemic, has been under strict lockdown since January 14. Despite the lockdown, positivity rates remain high at about 20%. Daily cases peaked on January 15 with 6,154 new diagnoses, and have dropped since then, but remain alarmingly high. On January 30, there were 2,631 new cases, and 117,410 active cases, including 955 people in serious or critical condition, creating a serious strain on the country’s health system.
With hospital beds running out, Dr. Fadi El-Jardali, a professor of health policy and systems at the American University of Beirut (AUB), points to the privatization of Lebanon’s health system as a major cause for its inability to cope.
ambulances are
dropping Covid- positive patients in need of urgent care in hospital car parks and wards lacking
life-saving equipment or drugs as doctors battle a sharp increase in the number of critical cases, health professionals told
The National.
“There was a day last week when we didn’t have a single ventilator left. We borrowed one from another hospital, but each day, we are on the brink of disaster,” said Georges Ghanem, chief medical officer at the Lebanese American University – Rizk Hospital.
The new year brought record-high numbers of coronavirus cases after restrictions were eased during Christmas and New Year festivities.