Patients in hospitals in Beirut’s southern suburbs will be evacuated to medical centers in the capital and the nearby Mount Lebanon region, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Saturday.
In a statement carried by state news agency (NNA) , the ministry called on hospitals in Beirut and Mount Lebanon to stop receiving cases that can be delayed in order to receive patients evacuating from the hard-hit southern suburb of Dahiyeh.
The ministry’s decision came after a night of Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, a predominantly Shiite district and a Hezbollah stronghold.
The ministry also called on hospitals and medical centers to care for ill people who fled Dahiyeh overnight as a result of the airstrikes.
