.@WHO has dispatched 22 metric tonnes of life-saving medicines and trauma and emergency surgery supplies to #Beirut — enough to support treatment for 50,000 patients, including 40,000 surgical interventions.
This is the first land convoy dispatched through a multi-country land bridge from WHO's Global Logistics Hub in Dubai, which has established a new route to keep supplies moving amid growing logistics disruptions across the Middle East region. The convoy is expected to reach Beirut within a week.
Lebanon's #health system is facing mounting pressure from rising needs, mass displacement, and critical shortages of medicines, supplies and fuel. Health workers continue to operate under difficult conditions, with access to care increasingly limited for the most vulnerable.
More WHO shipments are ready and will be dispatched soon to support the response in Lebanon.
WHO thanks the Government of the UAE for over a decade of partnership supporting the Global Logistics Hub, which keeps humanitarian supplies moving to more than 150 countries worldwide.
WHO calls for the protection of healthcare and urges all parties to choose the life-saving path to peace.