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The World Health Organization said on Thursday that the explosion of pagers and other wireless communication devices in Lebanon this week has caused “serious disruption” to the country’s already fragile health sector.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organization’s director-general, said in a press conference that the organization had distributed blood bags and medical supplies in the country.
“The entire health system has been put under severe pressure very, very quickly,” Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, said at the same briefing.
