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Lebanese Health Minister reports 170 critical injuries from explosions, hospitals overwhelmed, urgent call for health workers and blood donations.

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.

With nearly half the population in poverty and inflation at 40%, concerns are rising that Lebanon is ill-prepared for any escalation in the Israel-Gaza war

Caretaker Health Minister Firass Abiad announced Sunday that Lebanon is expected to shortly receive 600,000 doses of the cholera vaccine, adding that a vaccination drive will kick off in the country next Saturday. The minister was speaking during a tour of the Baalbek-Hermel region to prepare for the campaign. He…

Lebanon took delivery on Monday of its first vaccines to combat a worsening cholera outbreak - together with sharply worded criticism of the crisis-hit country's crumbling public health infrastructure from donor nation France. By Sunday, cases of cholera - a disease typically spread through contaminated water, food or sewage -…

(This Oct. 31 story has been corrected to reflect the source of vaccines as Sanofi's philanthropic arm and not the government, in paragraphs 1 and 6)

Syrian refugees in displacement camps are falling victim to a cholera outbreak in Lebanon, already suffering from an economic meltdown that has slashed access to clean water and strained hospitals. Lebanon recorded its first cholera case in early October -- signaling the return of the bacteria for the first time…

Syrian refugees in displacement camps are falling victim to a cholera outbreak in Lebanon, already suffering from an economic meltdown that has slashed access to clean water and strained hospitals.

Health officials blamed the country’s poor sanitation and crumbling infrastructure, as the disease spreads from Syria.

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…