paired with the damage many of the hospital buildings have endured! If you would like to assist in the emergency response to the people of Beirut who have been affected by this, please feel free to donate to any of these organizations:
Beirut has recently experienced a very devastating explosion that has left many people dead, injured, displaced from homes, families sleeping in the streets with their children and hospitals overcrowded due to the influx of injured patients seeking immediate medical attention -
Tonight people in Beirut are going to sleep in shattered homes, during a deadly pandemic, with a collapsing economy led by corrupt politicians, surrounded by countries that have attacked & threatened them and a world that has abandoned them and their refugees. They deserve better
We all have a role to defeat #COVID19 together 😷 Check out the Arabic version of this video that I am so happy to be a part of, and help us spread the message in our communities #WearAMask@AlsaiedTarek@DrSmartTeam
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A scandal, yes. That governments don’t invest in healthcare as they should be. That economy is the number one driver of policies and not human rights. That the whole global system needs revisiting; humans and nature should be at the top. Corporates last.
This really isn’t a joke. If all it takes is for us to stay home for a few weeks, then so be it. Hospitals will never be able to handle all the patients.
Hariri basically saying scenes of destruction in downtown Beirut are threatening his father’s ‘dream’. Rafic Hariri’s extremely unpopular reconstruction of the area - which drove out lower and middle class tenants - is a key factor in protests being held there