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Health
Timour Azhari, Laila Bassam and Maya Saad

Lebanon's healthcare on brink of collapse amid crisis, says minister

Lebanon's Health Minister Firass Abiad gestures as he speaks during an interview with Reuters at the Ministry of Health in Beirut, Lebanon January 17, 2022. Picture taken January 17, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Lebanon's healthcare system is crumbling amid an economic crisis that has led to an exodus of thousands of doctors and nurses, forced private hospitals to close some departments and put further strains on the already stretched state sector.

"If this crisis goes on for long without solutions we will of course come closer to a great collapse," Health Minister Firass Abiad told Reuters this week.

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