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Lebanon administers 1st vaccines to health workers, elderly – Ya Libnan


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Lebanon has administered its first jabs of COVID-19 vaccine, with an intensive care unit physician and a well-known 93-year-old comedian becoming the first to receive Pfizer-BioNTech doses
A healthcare worker receives Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a nationwide vaccination program at the American University Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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 SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press
BEIRUT Lebanon administered Sunday its first jabs of COVID-19 vaccine, with an intensive care unit physician and a well-known 93-year-old comedian becoming the first to receive Pfizer-BioNTech doses.
Lebanon launched its inoculation campaign a day after receiving the first batch of the vaccine 28,500 doses from Brussels, near where Pfizer has a manufacturing facility. More were expected to arrive in the coming weeks. ....

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Scarred for life: Beirut blast victims and life-altering wounds


“Most of the long-term disabilities are blindness or loss of limbs,” said al-Hilw.
He added the ministry was fully responsible for the lifelong treatment of all Lebanese victims of the blast – including the cost of prosthetic limbs and reconstructive eye surgeries – whereas UN agencies would have to fund the treatment of Syrian and Palestinian refugees.
Ibrahim Omeis, a neurosurgeon at the American University of Beirut Hospital – one of the busiest the night of the blast – said the bodies of many victims were severely scarred and will require extensive reconstructive surgery. 
He added: “And even if many victims’ physical injuries can be treated, many more suffer post-traumatic stress symptoms which will take much longer to overcome.” ....

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