Twenty tons of WHO health supplies was recently delivered to Beirut in part to help Lebanon weather the ongoing COVID-19 crisis
WHO and the Lebanese Ministry of Health are working hard to ensure continuity in the response to COVID-19 in the country.
The shipment was airlifted from WHO’s logistics hub in Dubai earlier using a plane donated by the Government of the United Arab Emirates, a key WHO partner in health emergency response.
As a result of the blast, three hospitals in Beirut are now non-functional and two hospitals are partially damaged, leaving a critical gap in hospital bed capacity. WHO is distributing the supplies to priority hospitals across Lebanon receiving and treating injured patients.