"Lebanon's patients face crisis as medical staff exodus" 8 June 2022

...Once among the best in the Middle East, Lebanon's medical system is crumbling as hospitals and surgeries struggle to cope with departing staff on top of financial troubles and shortages.

...Healthcare workers say they are struggling to cope with a drop in their incomes as a result of the heavily devalued currency and growing workloads that leave them overstretched and patients at risk.

Nurses are now being asked by hospitals to care for up to 20 patients at a time, violating guidelines from the Order of Nurses which recommend a maximum of seven patients per nurse on duty, said the regulatory body's President Rima Sassine Kazan...

Doctors and hospitals launched a two-day strike in May, announcing only emergency cases and dialysis patients would be admitted...