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Lebanon: the Quarantine hospital rises from its ashes in Beirut

2021-08-04T18:01:48.336Z


REPORT - Thanks to funding from Swiss cooperation and the courage of Robert Sacy and his team, the establishment, very close to the epicenter of the explosion on August 4, 2020, was able to reopen its pediatric service.


Beirut

Some silver lining. Robert Sacy does not deny the French proverb. Last June, the doctor inaugurated the new pediatrics and neonatology wing of the government hospital of the Quarantine. Funded by Swiss cooperation, it allows around thirty children to be hospitalized there.

"It's superb, isn't it?"

, he thunders, black suspenders stretched over his stomach, while he shows the new space all clean.

“We even installed a parasol for coffee on the terrace and enclosures full of greenery. We could spend a lifetime here, don't you think? Finally, I already spend twenty hours a day ... "

Yet a year ago, the founder of the Assameh association, which helps mothers and their children, cried all the tears of his body.

On August 4, 2020,

“the work of (s) a vie”

had been reduced to nothing when several hundred tons of ammonium nitrate exploded at the port of Beirut.

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Source: lefigaro

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