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Beirut: Patients cram hospital corridors and spill into driveways. Intensive care units are full as the coronavirus thins the ranks of already-overstretched medical personnel. People scramble from pharmacy to pharmacy, plead with friends or resort to the black market for ventilators, medicines and baby milk. Lebanon’s medical system is buckling under a post-holiday COVID-19 surge that has killed almost as many people in January alone as died from the disease all last year. To stave off a catastrophe like those seen in Italy and Iran, the Lebanese government has imposed the harshest lockdown...

Lebanon's medical system is buckling under a post-holiday COVID-19 surge that has killed almost as many people in January alone as died from the disease all last year.

Faced with multiple crises, Lebanon teeters between a healthcare collapse and economic oblivion.

Doctors treat patients in cars as Lebanon's hospitals buckle amid a surge of Covid patients 'We're getting to the point of true disaster', a doctor warns, as extreme lockdown and economic crisis threaten civil unrest 1 February 2021 • 12:00pm A patient treated in their car at the emergency care unit at St George's Hospital Credit: Nabil Mounzer/Shutterstock Doctors in Lebanon are treating patients in parked cars, outside hospitals, in corridors, cupboards and canteens as doctors warn the country could be on its way towards a dreaded “Italian scenario” as the death rate continues to rise...

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 ...