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Providing medical and humanitarian assistance to migrants and refugees.

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Our work in Lebanon

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ensures access to free, high-quality health care for vulnerable people, including refugees and migrant workers. Our activities in Lebanon include reproductive health services, general and intensive care, treatment for non-communicable diseases, and routine vaccinations for children.

Beirut: 2 months after the blast

What's happening in Lebanon?

The health system in Lebanon—a country that hosts over 850,000 registered Syrian refugees—has continued to crumble in recent years due to social and political unrest, economic collapse, and the Beirut blast.

MSF medical mobile team member vaccinates a patient in northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.

How we're helping in Lebanon

In Lebanon, the health system is highly privatized and fragmented, and free medical services are almost non-existent. Ensuring free access to high-quality general and specialist health care has been MSF’s main objective since 2008. 

In August 2020, a huge explosion tore through the capital, Beirut, killing at least 200 people and destroying many homes and businesses. The blast resulted in a spike in COVID-19 cases as thousands of injured and traumatized people took to the streets to seek treatment for their wounds or search for missing family members, abandoning all precautionary measures. MSF assisted residents of the devastated areas by providing medical care and mental health support, distributing hygiene kits, and installing water tanks.

COVID-19 spread from September and overwhelmed the health care system. A series of lockdowns further aggravated the economic crisis. As the number of cases increased, we transformed our hospital in the Bekaa Valley into a COVID-19 facility and supported an isolation center in Siblin, in the south of the country. In Elias Haraoui in Zahle, we adapted and expanded our activities in the emergency room to ensure effective triage of patients. Our teams also carried out COVID-19 testing and health promotion activities in several locations across Lebanon.

Preventing the pandemic from disrupting other essential health services was of fundamental importance to our teams in Lebanon. During the year, we kept existing activities running, to ensure access to free, high-quality health care for vulnerable people in need of medical or humanitarian support, such as Syrian refugees—there are over a million in the country.

We ran reproductive health services and maternity centers in south Beirut and Arsal, and offered general and intensive care, including vaccinations and treatment for children with thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder. Mental health support and care for non-communicable diseases were also available in our projects.

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How we're helping in 2021

124,600

Outpatient consultations

11,000

Individual mental health consultations

51,600

Doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered

4,030

Births assisted

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