(18 Sep 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 18 September 2024
1. Various exteriors of hospital
2. Wide of Lebanese caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad walking inside hospital
3 SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Firas Abiad, Lebanese caretaker health minister:
"It received over 120 patients, and the staff, thankfully, worked until the early morning hours. Eleven operating rooms were functioning. We saw a large number of patients in intensive care or hospitalized. Some patients still require surgeries today, and they are currently being treated in the operating rooms. The hospitals made a great effort yesterday, and many, including this hospital, have canceled (scheduled) operations today to accommodate care for the injured patients."
4. Various of Abiad with medical staff
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Joelle Khadra, emergency room doctor at Hotel Dieu hospital:
"Yesterday, we received 80 people injured when the devices exploded in their faces. The injuries affected their eyes, ears and hands, with some losing fingers. A large number of them required ventilators to prevent suffocation due to facial swelling. We have 55 people, both those who have been in the operating rooms and others still waiting for surgery. May they all recover."
6. Various of Abiad and medical staff
STORYLINE:
Lebanon’s caretaker Health Minister visited hospitals in Beirut on Wednesday where people who were wounded from pager explosions had been taken to.
During a stop at Hotel Dieu hospital, Abiad told reporters that many hospitals had postponed scheduled surgeries to deal with the new influx of patients.
"We saw a large number of patients in intensive care or hospitalized. Some patients still require surgeries today," he said.
Abiad said about 3,000 people were wounded the day before and some 200 of them remained in intensive care units.
The health minister added that Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Egypt offered to help in treating the patients.
Dr. Joelle Khadra, an emergency room doctor at the hospital, said the hospital received more than 80 patients last night.
"The injuries affected their eyes, ears and hands, with some losing fingers. A large number of them required ventilators to prevent suffocation due to facial swelling," she said.
Earlier on Wednesday, an Iraqi military plane landed in Beirut carrying medical equipment, airport officials said.
Abiad said the plane was carrying 15 tonnes of medicines and medical equipment.
Taiwanese company Gold Apollo said Wednesday that it authorized its brand on the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria in an apparent Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah’s communications network but that another company based in Budapest manufactured them.
Pagers used by the militant group Hezbollah exploded near-simultaneously on Tuesday in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people, including an 8-year-old girl, and wounding nearly 3,000.
Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for what appeared to be a sophisticated remote attack.
An American official said Israel briefed the United States on Tuesday after the conclusion of the operation, in which small amounts of explosive secreted in the pagers were detonated.
The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the information publicly.
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