Lebanon can’t handle next Covid wave: hospital chief

Lebanon can’t handle next Covid wave: hospital chief

Beirut, Lebanon-

Lebanon’s deepening economic crisis has piled pressure on hospitals, leaving them ill-equipped to face any new wave of the coronavirus, a top hospital director has warned.

Already struggling with shortages of medicine and an exodus of staff abroad, the country’s health facilities are now also having to contend with almost round-the-clock power cuts.