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International Business Times
International Business Times
World
Aya Iskandarani

Bracing For War: Lebanese Hospitals Ready Emergency Plans

A nurse arrives for training at Rafik Hariri Hospital in Beirut (Credit: AFP)

In Lebanon's biggest public hospital, nurses are busy honing their life-saving skills as the spectre of all-out war looms, 10 months into intensifying clashes between Hezbollah and Israel over the Gaza war.

"We are in a state of readying for war," nurse Basima Khashfi said as she gave emergency training to young nurses and other staff at the hospital in Beirut.

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