Rania Bassil, a paediatric cardiologist, treats Farah Ahmediyeh (3), who has cerebral palsy and has had COVID-19 and now pneumonia, is treated in the paediatric intensive care unit at the Karantina Hospital Beirut.

Following political collapse and the pandemic, the Lebanese economy plunged, wiping out 90% of people's savings and resulting in massive inflation. The ammonium nitrate explosion in August 2020 killed over 200 people and accelerated the country's economic collapse. The impact on the struggling healthcare system has been disastrous.