Lebanon’s economic crisis pushes isolated communities into health care misery – The National

Lebanon’s economic crisis pushes isolated communities into health care misery – The National

For days, Nayef Houjeiri, a 51-year-old labourer from the isolated Lebanese border town of Arsal, had put up with his hypertension — the tightness in his chest and exhaustion.

After going around a number of clinics, some closed, others not, he arrived at a primary health care centre run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), one of the few free facilities in the Baalbek-Hermel governorate.

By that time, his condition was critical and Mr Houjeiri, who has three children, collapsed in the clinic's waiting room.