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The Lebanese Healthcare Crisis: An Infinite Calamity
In the past, a number of events rocked Lebanon, a small region of the previously prestigious Phoenician civilization. Whether it was mandates, wars, or economic compromises, the country always seemed to rise up again to a prominent stature in the Middle East. Once known as Switzerland of the East, L...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9235031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35769680 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25367 |
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description | In the past, a number of events rocked Lebanon, a small region of the previously prestigious Phoenician civilization. Whether it was mandates, wars, or economic compromises, the country always seemed to rise up again to a prominent stature in the Middle East. Once known as Switzerland of the East, Lebanon was torn apart by the works of sectarian battles during the civil war from 1975 to 1990. Since then, the country has never been the same with the turmoil left and right. Despite all of that, the healthcare sector has been one of the most prominent in the Middle East and the entire Arab world with accomplished physicians returning from immigration to serve their country. Lebanon excelled in holding first-time international conferences, performing medical interventions, and offering one of the best healthcare education and training to its juniors. The most recent setbacks since late 2019 have, however, held Lebanon back and subsequently handcuffed the healthcare system, leading to the impactful demise of the once glorious care. Nevertheless, the healthcare system remains one of the top-tier domains fighting against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic and the failings of the rocked state. |
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spelling | pubmed-92350312022-06-28 The Lebanese Healthcare Crisis: An Infinite Calamity Fleifel, Mohamad Abi Farraj, Khaled Cureus Public Health In the past, a number of events rocked Lebanon, a small region of the previously prestigious Phoenician civilization. Whether it was mandates, wars, or economic compromises, the country always seemed to rise up again to a prominent stature in the Middle East. Once known as Switzerland of the East, Lebanon was torn apart by the works of sectarian battles during the civil war from 1975 to 1990. Since then, the country has never been the same with the turmoil left and right. Despite all of that, the healthcare sector has been one of the most prominent in the Middle East and the entire Arab world with accomplished physicians returning from immigration to serve their country. Lebanon excelled in holding first-time international conferences, performing medical interventions, and offering one of the best healthcare education and training to its juniors. The most recent setbacks since late 2019 have, however, held Lebanon back and subsequently handcuffed the healthcare system, leading to the impactful demise of the once glorious care. Nevertheless, the healthcare system remains one of the top-tier domains fighting against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic and the failings of the rocked state. Cureus 2022-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9235031/ /pubmed/35769680 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25367 Text en Copyright © 2022, Fleifel et al. https://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 | Public Health Fleifel, Mohamad Abi Farraj, Khaled The Lebanese Healthcare Crisis: An Infinite Calamity |
title | The Lebanese Healthcare Crisis: An Infinite Calamity |
title_full | The Lebanese Healthcare Crisis: An Infinite Calamity |
title_fullStr | The Lebanese Healthcare Crisis: An Infinite Calamity |
title_full_unstemmed | The Lebanese Healthcare Crisis: An Infinite Calamity |
title_short | The Lebanese Healthcare Crisis: An Infinite Calamity |
title_sort | lebanese healthcare crisis: an infinite calamity |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9235031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35769680 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25367 |
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