In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lebanon Green Building Council(LGBC) and Pierre Dammous & Partners (PDP) a leading engineering consulting firm serving multiple industry sectors across the Middle East and Africa, joined their ingenuity to work by helping to quickly identify and adapt buildings and spaces into temporary health care facilities for an influx of patients.
LGBC and PDP observed the pandemic effects on different countries having a low hospitalization allowances, with limited number of total beds to be available during the critical pandemic like to Covid-19.
According the WHO the Mena Region specially is lacking for the number of beds it should potentially have.
This paper is prepared to deal with the fact that European country and other rich countries suffered from the influx of patients in needs for hospitalization in the case of pandemic similar to the one encountered recently. Almost most of the above mentioned countries were not prepared and chaotic situation put the human rights and human values below the benchmark we already are proud to preach and to battle for many decades, white papers and conferences, worldwide, years before the actual Pandemic, described clearly the danger we will face from air borne viruses, which was in preparation and under experimentation in many laboratories; at the same time anti-virus are under researchers goals to find an issues in case of proliferation of any of such virus is under attack in any countries, maybe, it was not clear for some, the possible spread in such speed to cover so many countries simultaneously. The actual pandemic attack was unforeseen to many countries, the results was disastrous, medical reserves neither medical supplies with the necessary protected measures for the medical team wasn’t enough to protect them from the attack covering the global population worldwide; viruses spread and attacks was already virtually predicted in many fiction movies, the film makers dreams transformed to a reality; a virtual imagination hard to believe it’s realization. Adversely, we have seen a tragic situation hard to believe to happen such in Italy, Spain and Brazil, were patients passed away in great numbers without receiving any medical treatment, Nurses, Doctors and the medical team succumbed under the contamination effects due to the missed protocol and supplies of protection instrumental wearing, such as masks, gloves and sterilization means was missing from stocks. Photos spreads by media, shows patients laying on beds waiting for medical support died without receiving any, furthermore, morgues or funeral are no more practiced due to the great numbers to be manipulated and prepared.
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