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Our teams on the ground are continuing to assess the needs and are exploring other ways to support Lebanon’s medical system in collaboration with other public health actors. But when disasters like these occur, it's because of our monthly donors that our teams, already in-country running other medical programs, are able to immediately jump into action.
Kim Goldsmith-N'Diaye
Director of Development Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres USA
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From: Doctors Without Borders
Date: Thursday, Aug 6, 2020
Subject: [Beirut Update]: How MSF is responding to Tuesday’s explosion
"The number of COVID-19 cases was on the rise in the past weeks and some hospitals were starting to become overwhelmed dealing with these patients.…The blast transformed what was already a very difficult situation into chaos in just a few seconds." – Emmanuel Massart, coordinator of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) operations in Lebanon:
Our teams in Beirut are witnessing a grim reality: A ground-shaking explosion this Tuesday killed over 135 people, with more than 5,000 injured and hundreds more still missing. This comes while Lebanon is facing both an economic collapse and the continued spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was already stretching Lebanon’s health care services thin.
MSF teams were immediately on-site in the aftermath to see how they could assist. Since the incident, our teams have:
Donated enough wound kits to treat 100 patients to the Lebanese Civil Defense and are currently organizing additional donations while also assessing whether we can set up a mobile team to provide additional medical support due to the overwhelming number of injured survivors struggling to access treatment.
We’re also assessing the needs of hospitals and emergencies services and seeking further opportunities to provide support in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health and other public health actors.
MSF’s Bar Elias hospital, in the Beqaa Valley, is preparing to welcome patients in need of post-surgical care. We are also looking at the needs of the most vulnerable communities in the area.
This email was sent from the U.S. section of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care.
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