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Lebanese Healthcare System: How Will the Aftermath Look?
The recent Lebanese port explosion came as a continuation of a series of socioeconomic disasters the country has been facing during the past year. In addition, the massive impact of the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic further hastened the collapse of the Lebanese healthcare system. In lig...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7538024/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33042708 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10270 |
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author | Farha, Loulwa Abi Jaoude, Joseph |
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description | The recent Lebanese port explosion came as a continuation of a series of socioeconomic disasters the country has been facing during the past year. In addition, the massive impact of the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic further hastened the collapse of the Lebanese healthcare system. In light of all those events, the Lebanese healthcare sector has faced major blows that will be difficult to recuperate from. In the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion, Lebanon received immense financial and medical support from the international community in a timely fashion, which secured first level care to victims of the explosion. Nevertheless, this forced Lebanon, which was considered a prominent tertiary medical hub in the Middle East, to slowly regress into an exclusive primary care provider. As such, it is crucial for local and regional stakeholders to build strong collaborations, and shape a unified vision of Lebanon’s future healthcare system. |
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spelling | pubmed-75380242020-10-09 Lebanese Healthcare System: How Will the Aftermath Look? Farha, Loulwa Abi Jaoude, Joseph Cureus Epidemiology/Public Health The recent Lebanese port explosion came as a continuation of a series of socioeconomic disasters the country has been facing during the past year. In addition, the massive impact of the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic further hastened the collapse of the Lebanese healthcare system. In light of all those events, the Lebanese healthcare sector has faced major blows that will be difficult to recuperate from. In the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion, Lebanon received immense financial and medical support from the international community in a timely fashion, which secured first level care to victims of the explosion. Nevertheless, this forced Lebanon, which was considered a prominent tertiary medical hub in the Middle East, to slowly regress into an exclusive primary care provider. As such, it is crucial for local and regional stakeholders to build strong collaborations, and shape a unified vision of Lebanon’s future healthcare system. Cureus 2020-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7538024/ /pubmed/33042708 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10270 Text en Copyright © 2020, Farha et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Epidemiology/Public Health Farha, Loulwa Abi Jaoude, Joseph Lebanese Healthcare System: How Will the Aftermath Look? |
title | Lebanese Healthcare System: How Will the Aftermath Look? |
title_full | Lebanese Healthcare System: How Will the Aftermath Look? |
title_fullStr | Lebanese Healthcare System: How Will the Aftermath Look? |
title_full_unstemmed | Lebanese Healthcare System: How Will the Aftermath Look? |
title_short | Lebanese Healthcare System: How Will the Aftermath Look? |
title_sort | lebanese healthcare system: how will the aftermath look? |
topic | Epidemiology/Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7538024/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33042708 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10270 |
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