Lebanon’s economy and its healthcare sector may be struggling with a crisis, but private diagnostic centers and laboratories are doing just fine. Facilitated by the fact that there is no legal limit to their number per population density, and relative ease with which they can apply for a license, these centers have multiplied in recent years, making Lebanon, and Beirut in particular, one of the most up-to-date markets for diagnostic technology in the Middle East. Based on data from the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and the World Health Organization (WHO), Lebanon’s government issued 2,585 licenses for the opening of new health facilities in 2010 alone. This figure, the latest available, represents an average of 6.5 new health structures per 10,000 population and goes up to 7.8 per 10,000 in the Beirut area. According to the 2012 National Health Statistics Report in Lebanon, published by the Institute of Health Management
