#Lebanon’s Tebnine Government Hospital, one of the busiest trauma management hospitals in the south, was damaged due to two consecutive strikes closeby on 12 and 14 April.
11 workers were injured and the emergency department, including critical equipment such as ventilators, monitors, stretchers and trolleys, were damaged.
The pharmacy and out-patient clinics were also damaged.
@WHO is supporting urgent emergency maintenance based on priority needs, while hospital services continue to function despite the strain.
Since the start of the war, @WHO has recorded 133 attacks on health care with 88 deaths and 206 injuries. Fifteen hospitals and 7 primary healthcare centres have been damaged, and 5 hospitals and 56 primary health care centres have closed.
Humanitarian access to southern Lebanon has been severely constrained, hindering support to health facilities and limiting people’s access to essential care.
I reiterate the call for the immediate protection of health care facilities, health workers, ambulances, and patients. There must be safe, sustained, and unhindered humanitarian access across Lebanon, so that life-saving services can be delivered without delay and without risk to those providing or receiving care.
