WHO Lebanon Covid-19 response

Provide rapid support to the healthcare response to Covid-19, delivering much needed medical equipment and supporting public communications through WHO delivery. Assistance would be directed towards quickly stabilising the fragile healthcare system - which was already overburdened and strained by an economic crisis - at a very crucial time. On top of the underlying pressures, the Government has said the crisis is overwhelming the system. This will be both humanitarian and preventive in nature. WHO assess a significant number of lives could be saved if a severe Covid-19 outbreak can be avoided through proper containment measures; it will also mitigate against secondary instability shocks (particularly amongst vulnerable communities such as Syrian and Palestinian refugees).