Café Najjar Offering Free Raqwa Coffee Machines & Capsules to Health Heroes

To thank them for their service and for the sacrifices and efforts they are making round the clock, leading Lebanese coffee maker Café Najjar is offering free Raqwa Machines and capsules to the entire medical, nursing, administrative teams and all front-liners of Coronavirus . The initiative started with Rafic Hariri University Hospital and the American University of Beirut Medical Center , and will be extended to reach other hospitals and medical centers. We've seen a…

LAU Mobile Clinic Touring Lebanon to Provide Free PCR Tests

LAU launched a week ago The Mobile Clinic and has been touring Lebanon offering free PCR tests for patients who cannot afford it or are not covered by the NSSF or any other medical insurance. They've been to Nabatieh, Zgharta, Tripoli and Akkar already and want to reach as many rural areas as they can. I think this is a very important step, not just for helping those without medical insurance, but to test more…
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COVID-19 Update: Is Lebanon Flattening The Curve?

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Health Minister Hamad Hassan appeared in a video yesterday re-assuring Lebanese that we’re close to achieving our goal, which I assume means containing the pandemic and flattening the #COVID19 curve, but did not provide further ...
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Two Easy DIY No-Sew Approaches To Make Face Masks

4 years ago
Should healthy people wear masks to prevent Coronavirus? Should everyone wear masks? Is a Homemade Mask effective? Which material should we use? Are cloth face coverings recommended? How about cheap paper masks? Bandanas? The truth ...
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SPEAK UP COVID: Much-Needed Psychological Support for Health Care Workers

4 years ago
Everyone’s talking about providing health care workers with personal protective equipment, but there’s another crisis that few are tackling, which is how to mitigate or prevent more serious psychological or mental health issues that health ...
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AUBMC Launches Pandemic Evaluation Clinic And Center To Counter COVID19 Outbreak

4 years ago
Early last week, The American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) announced that they’re now performing COVID19 tests at their newly established Pandemic Evaluation Clinic And Center. The PECC is located in Building 56, the ...
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Berri’s Wearing an AirDoctor Portable

4 years ago
82-year old Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was captured wearing an AirDoctor card during his meeting with a group of ministers earlier this week. The card in question is a Japanese product that supposedly “protects against ...
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Bayte Baytak – A free Airbnb initiative to shelter Red Cross and Medical Heroes during coronavirus crisis

4 years ago
“!كرمال أبطال الجهاز الطبي والصليب الأحمر بيوتنا إلكن” Lebanese always find a way to help each other. But this time, it transcended all expectations. People opening their doors to welcome Lebanese Red Cross volunteers and ...
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Three Initiatives by Lebanese To Produce Ventilators For #COVID19 Patients

4 years ago
Are there enough ventilators to treat all the patients? This is a question that’s being asked all over the world as the coronavirus pandemic spreads its wings. Ventilators are key to treating critical patients as ...
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Calls to applaud the medical staff at 5PM, while MTV Lebanon launches marathon Téléthon day

4 years ago
The image has been shared widely around Europe, in France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands in particular. People stepping out on their balconies and saluting the medical staff working at hospitals, at around 8PM every ...
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