A member of the medical staff examines a baby being treated in an incubator in the neo-natal intensive care unit at Karantina Public Hospital. The hospital has only a few days of diesel in reserve. If the generators stop, these babies die.

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.