Beirut: Hospital in the Akkar Lebanon northern area where the fuel tank explosion killed at least 28 people this week struggled to operate on Tuesday due to the soul-threatening power outage and telecommunications blackouts swept the area.
The lights and telephone lines come across the poor and marginalized areas that have long suffered from ill electricity networks but now grappling with an unprecedented crisis due to severe diesel shortages nationally.
His blackouts came less than two days after the fuel tank exploded in Al-Tleil Village, people who were destroyed shouted to refuel gasoline distributed by the army.
About 80 people, including several soldiers, were injured, many of them were severely burned, the hospital was extraordinary.
Fuel shortages from the beginning of the summer have exacerbated the difficulties in Lebanon, a country of more than six million, namely in the upheaval of the economic crisis labeled by the World Bank as the worst since the mid 19th century 19th century.
Without diesel fuel needed to power the private generator, business, hospital and even the country’s main telecommunications operators have been forced to increase the operation again or close completely due to blackouts which last up to 22 hours a day.
In Akkar, the hospital still kept the bodies of victims who were scorched in Sunday’s explosion left without power, the internet and a telephone line, because health officials requested assistance from the authorities.
“We have a 700 liter stock (nearly 185 gallons) diesel fuel that will last only one day,” said Riad Rahal, Director of the Rahal Hospital in the city of Akkar Halba.
The nearest El-Youssef Hospital also has enough diesel stock to last until Wednesday morning and no telephone line that works, said Nathaline El-Chaar, assistant director.
“Since yesterday, the house telephone has been out of service …
and we strive to secure Diesel,” he told AFP.
He said the diesel provider of the hospital had delayed the delivery that was afraid of attacks on the North Lebanon highway where the incident in the past few days has seen angry groups catch fuel from trucks.
The official national news agency said Tuesday that lack of diesel fuel and power outages had forced the telecommunications provider of Ogero to cut the internet, home telephone and cell phone services in several parts of Akkar, effectively paralyzing banks, businesses and state offices.
Head of Ogero Imad Kreidieh warned that other regions in Lebanon had to follow the coat except the situation improved.
On the southern outskirts of Beirut, a shot was immediately fired at a gas station, the latest in a series of deadly incidents that raved in a long gasoline queue.
NNA said the army was deployed in the area after several people were injured in filming, but it did not provide further details.
A security source told AFP that people who had kept gasoline illegally at the pump station fired a direct round when the army tried to confiscate their inventory.
They also started the fire at the gas station, accused the owner had gave a tip of a wind.
Video and images circulated on social media show men open fire-gun fire.
AFP cannot independently verify the authenticity of the recording.
The army on Saturday began robbing a gas station and confiscated fuel stocks that distributors had been caused for sale at higher prices in the dark market or crossing the border in Syria.
Hospital in BLAST-HIT NORTH Lebanon Grapple with blackouts
