Of the 55 health care facilities in Beirut that the World Health Organization assessed, more than half are now unable to function. Doctors at a hospital about a mile from the blast site said the facility was decimated, calling the scene 'an apocalypse.'
Workers remove debris from a hospital that was heavily damaged in last week's explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut.Workers remove debris from a hospital that was heavily damaged in last week's explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut.Beirut continues to reel in the wake of last week's port explosion that destroyed much of the Lebanese capital, killing more than 200 people and wounding thousands more.
Dr. Eid Azar, an infectious disease expert and the chief of staff at Saint George Hospital University Medical Center in Beirut told NPR'sAzar's hospital is located a little more than a mile from the blast site at the port of Beirut."Then, minutes later, we start to understand that something is happening in the city, and then after that we activated the evacuation plan," he said.
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