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What is happening in Lebanon?

The situation in Lebanon is worsening by the day. People are fleeing their homes, while health facilities and hospitals are being destroyed by the conflict. 

The recent escalation poses a severe and immediate threat to the lives of ordinary people. 

People are under threat from the obvious and immediate danger of air strikes — and from the silent, creeping risk of unmanaged health conditions. 

Across the country, hospitals are managing large numbers of trauma and emergency cases, including mass casualty incidents where emergency departments must treat and care for many people at once following an attack or air strike. 

More than one million people have been displaced from their homes already, forced into overcrowded shelters in areas that are further from the conflict.  Families are having to cope with temporary living conditions which put the most vulnerable at increased risk of infection, especially young children and those with underlying health conditions.

On top of this, long-term conditions like diabetes and heart disease don’t simply disappear.. People need sustained access to care and medication. The danger isn’t only the injuries we see today — it’s the untreated illnesses and interrupted care that can cause deaths weeks and months later. 

All of this is putting immense pressure on hospitals and emergency services.  

Even before the hostilities escalated in March 2026, Lebanon was experiencing one of the world’s deepest economic crises. The large-scale airstrikes and violence nationwide have delivered a shock to the already fragile healthcare system. 

This is why we’re in Lebanon.  

Our medical team started work last week at a hospital in Saida, southern Lebanon — helping health workers  to  manage increased number and severity of patients.  

Donations to UK-Med have helped to get our team into Lebanon. A donation today could help save lives. 

Our team trained 14 nurses to deal with major trauma. They didn’t know that this training would be put into action so soon. ,Only 48 hours later, an influx of people were  rushed to the hospital needing emergency care following a missile strike. 

Ten people injured. Two people, heartbreakingly, dead on arrival. 

And this is just one day in one hospital. 

Our team is focussed on supporting staff in the emergency department and intensive care unit – the parts of the hospital which deal with emergency cases and the most unwell people. 

A gift today could save a life. For ordinary people, forced to flee their homes for an overcrowded shelter, it can mean medicines or maternity care. For those experiencing the horror of an airstrike, it can mean the difference between life and death as they arrive in the emergency department. 

Your donation today helps people affected by crises around the world, now and in the future. Gift Aid and any surplus funds will help UK-Med’s wider humanitarian work and general charitable purposes.