Our health industry collapse too?

Lebanon was a prosperous country in the Middle Eastern region until wars based on selfish goals and corrupt political despots ruined it and in the past two years it is going through an enormous economic collapse. A few months ago, when I watched TV images of winding queues for fuel and medicines and the obvious anger and despair of the people who simply couldn’t make ends meet, I would communicate with immense sympathy to my friends in Lebanon and wish for the quick return of the happy days that we had spent together on my visits to that verdant land blessed with good human beings.

I never dreamt that a few months later, our resplendent land, where every prospect pleases, but politicians and their many henchmen are vile, would be plummeted to similar desperate dark days and nights, and that my friends from Lebanon would not sympathize but empathize with me.

It is now reported that Lebanon’s health care system, which was one of the best in the region, is rapidly crumbling as a result of skilled staff such as specialists, surgeons and nurses, leaving the country in search of greener pastures to ensure a better life for their children. Many clinics and hospitals have been closed down and patients have become increasingly desperate, especially the very young and elderly and those with serious illnesses.

With our passport office issuing an unprecedented number of passports over the past three months, and anybody who is able to, looking for employment overseas, how far away is the day when the unprecedented crisis created solely by our politicians -- present and past -- will become even more unbearable as a result of physically and mentally ill citizens being unable to obtain medical care?

Has the collection of self-aggrandizing criminals who are supposed to be governing us, thought of this real possibility? Do they even care…?

“Hell is empty; all devils are here” -- Shakespeare