{"id":62022,"date":"2021-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/62022\/suspension-of-basic-medical-services-as-lebanons-collapse-intensifies"},"modified":"2021-06-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:00:00","slug":"suspension-of-basic-medical-services-as-lebanons-collapse-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/62022\/suspension-of-basic-medical-services-as-lebanons-collapse-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspension Of Basic Medical Services As Lebanon&#8217;s Collapse Intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"Healthcare costs are skyrocketing in Lebanon and threatening the wellbeing of millions of people. Lebanon\u2019s medical experts are warning that hospitals may soon not be able to provide patients with life-saving operations and urgent medical care because of a financial crisis.<br \/>  <br \/>  Lebanon is wrangling with an unseen economic and financial crisis that largely impacted its healthcare system: shortages in medical supplies, fuel and other basic goods, with long queues forming outside gas stations. Lebanon\u2019s latest dollar shortage has also forced some pharmacies to close their doors in protest of the worsening conditions. Hospitals have also decided to cut down on elective surgeries and tests in order to save what is left of medical supplies and anesthesia for emergency operations as a stifling dollar shortage restricted the import of vital medical supplies and led banks to curtail credit lines. <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They&#8217;ve announced a three-day strike starting this Friday until the following Monday.<\/p>\u2014 Beirut.com (@BeirutCityGuide) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeirutCityGuide\/status\/1402993500329713672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  In this framework, the Syndicate of Hospitals in Lebanon announced in a recent statement that hospitals across the country are facing \u201ca severe shortage\u201d of subsidies and the basic medical supplies to conduct laboratory tests and identify diseases. The shortage of medical supplies in Lebanon is threatening the capacity of hospitals to continue offering dialysis past the coming few days; doctors say they may be forced to suspend kidney dialysis next, blaming shortages on a disagreement between medical importers and the Central Bank over subsidies with foreign reserves running low. <br \/>  <br \/>  The head of Medical Equipment Importers\u2019 Syndicate, Salma Assi, stated last night that they have reached a solution on dialysis because the Central Bank requested funds and gave a promise, but the problem of laboratories has not yet been addressed nor discussed. Sleiman Haroun, Head of Owners of Private Hospitals\u2019 Syndicate, said that consequently, the Central Bank promised that it will provide part of the funds to distributors of medical kits in order to support them, prioritizing dialysis and laboratories.<br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Many are only performing emergency tests.<\/p>\u2014 Beirut.com (@BeirutCityGuide) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeirutCityGuide\/status\/1398195877454528512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  A state\u2019s failure to take all obligatory measures to protect patients within their power from transgressions of the right to health by third parties, and the incapacity to adjust the activities of individuals and legal authorities so as to prevent them from violating the right to health of people, also constitutes a violation \u2014 warning that medical experts will need to favor patients with serious cases; If they cannot secure the supplies needed, some patients will die.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare costs are skyrocketing in Lebanon and threatening the wellbeing of millions of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":431875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"_lftp_listicle_injection":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-62022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[85],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Suspension Of Basic Medical Services As Lebanon&#039;s Collapse 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