In Lebanon, as in virtually all other countries around the globe, health has in 2020 been catapulted to the top spot of social concern after the onset of the Covid-19 …
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Healthcare in Lebanon
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Operating a high-end diagnostic center in Lebanon may be life saving, commendable and personally rewarding, but the financial returns are unlikely to match those from a plastic surgery outfit. Imbalances …
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The venture was conceived to solve a problem of medical claims management for several Lebanese insurers in 1991, right after the country’s civil war ended. Today, GlobeMed Group has 800 …
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Dr. Roger Sfeir is one of Lebanon’s leading cardiovascular surgeons and has been a key advisor on national healthcare reforms. International bodies such as the World Bank and United Nations …
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Twenty-one-year-old Peter Dagher has a rare type of leukemia, a form of blood cancer, and he needs a donor of hematopoietic stem cells (often referred to as bone marrow) for …
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The phrase “medical tourism in Lebanon” conjures for many the idea of visitors from the Gulf sitting in cafés and waiting for nose jobs. In reality, plastic surgery makes up …
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Between an executive order from United States President Barack Obama in 2009 and a papal endorsement in 2011, stem cell science has reached the forefront of medical research and is …
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You see them everywhere in Lebanon: the women whose faces look as tight as a 20-year-old’s until their wrinkled hands betray them as septuagenarians; the television presenters whose upper lips …
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A cornerstone of the renewal of the Lebanese healthcare industry is a series of investments in hospitals, paradigmatic among which is the project to expand and improve the medical center …
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The maxim in approaching the Lebanese healthcare “system” today appears to be simple: do not upset the patient. Keeping calm with strict bed rest can be a good short-term rule …
