BMC Health Services Research (Nov 2020)

BMC health services research title: the 2020 blast in the port of Beirut: can the Lebanese health system “build back better”?

  • Michel D. Landry,
  • Mohamad Alameddine,
  • Tiago S. Jesus,
  • Saydeh Sassine,
  • Elie Koueik,
  • Sudha R. Raman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05906-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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Abstract The August 2020 explosion in Lebanon resulted in casualties, injuries, and a great number of internally displaced persons. The blast occurred during an economically and politically complex time in the country. Given multiple and competing post-explosion reconstruction priorities, in ths editorial we briefly examine the requirements for a build back better scenario.