Medical professionals leaving Lebanon amid the pandemic and financial crisis

People in Lebanon are facing the pandemic, a financial crisis and are still recovering from a deadly blast in the capital that took hundreds of lives. And now, they’re losing their doctors. Rebecca Collard reports that Lebanese medical professionals have been leaving in droves because inflation has slashed their salaries.

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