Beirut Explosion Aftermath: "I have never witnessed something of this scale"

In August 2020, Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, was rocked by a massive explosion that killed more than 150 people and left more than 5,000 injured. Krystel Moussalli, an epidemiologist with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF), was inside the MSF building in Beirut when it happened. The walls were shaking, she said, “and the roof collapsing, and the voices of the people shouting in the streets, and the noise of broken glass. There were feelings of total shock, pain, loss, confusion.” Within days of the explosion, MSF teams were donating medical supplies to organizations including the Lebanese Red Cross and going to door to door to assess people's medical needs. We are currently investigating how best to provide support to the medical system during this extremely tumultuous time. “You hear of collapsed hospitals,” says Moussalli, “hospitals that were totally destroyed, that had to stop their activities, that had to evacuate their patients. And also, people's houses, partly or totally destroyed. People have their lives that have changed as of today, as of this minute.” Read more about the Beirut explosion aftermath: https://bit.ly/2PGqN4K​ Make sure you don’t miss weekly video updates and ongoing series about our work in crisis zones across the world. Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/BtzdsR Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières helps people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care. Learn more at https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/BtzdsR Like us on Facebook:   / doctorswithoutborders   Follow us on Instagram:   / doctorswithoutborders   Follow us on Twitter:   / msf_usa   Connect with us on LinkedIn:   / m-decins-sans-fronti-res-msf-   Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org...