hospital – After the explosions that targeted thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies carried by suspected Hezbollah members, the wounded have flooded into hospitals in Lebanon. A doctor at Rizk Hospital in Beirut testifies
In Beirut, in a white room at Rizk Hospital, young men with torn hands, disfigured faces and gaping holes in their abdomens are gathering. Everywhere, bandages around their eyes, their stomachs. And blood. Lots of blood. An hour earlier, the management of the Lebanese American University of Beirut hospital received a call from the Ministry of Health informing them an attack via pagers in ofs neighborhoods of the Lebanese capital where the Hezbollah is implanted.
“When we received the call, we didn’t understand anything,” admits Georges Ghanem, head of the cardiology department and head of the crisis unit at Rizk hospital. It must be said that the modus operandi is unprecedented. Thousands of pagers on Tuesday (and then walkie-talkies on Wednesday) carried by suspected members of Hezbollah have exploded simultaneously.
Immediately after the call, crisis mode was activated at Rizk Hospital. Accustomed to the attacks that regularly hit the country, the system was well-oiled. “We sent a message to all the staff to go to the hospital immediately.” Several hundred doctors, interns, nurses and employees then arrived.
Injured people who “did not want to be identified”
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