Lebanese group provides home away from home to healthcare workers


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Members of the Baytna Baytak NGO Jad Farhat (right) and Gaelle Fenianos (left) sanitise and prepare an oxygen machine before it is delivered to patients in need in Beirut. Photos: AP

In the middle of the destroyed Beirut neighbourhood of Gemmayzeh, a small team in masks and gloves were sanitising and packing oxygen machines to be sent to those in need.

It’s the latest venture of a Lebanese civil group that arose with the coronavirus pandemic and has been finding new avenues to help as the country’s crises expand.

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