٠٠:٠٣:٠٩Health workers at Saint George hospital shared their thoughts and memories ahead of the first year of the port explosions in Beirut, on Monday.
"I am still having flashbacks from the past and remember what happened. And now as we wait for Wednesday, I feel my heart beating faster again," said Rayaan Jafar, a nurse at Saint George hospital. "When you come to the hospital and enter rooms that have not yet been renovated, like this room, and places where there are no glass, all of that makes you remember what happened for sure."
I walked out of the clinic, and I don't remember what I saw but I remember what I heard, because I heard glass breaking under my feet," recalled Dr George Jovelikian head of the Department of Chest Diseases and Intensive Care at Saint George hospital, who described him self as being in shock.
On August 4, a massive explosion at Beirut's port devastated much of the Lebanese capital, claiming 220 lives and injuring 6,500. Some 300,000 people were displaced from their homes.
Lebanon: Health workers recall explosion on disaster's first anniversary
Health workers at Saint George hospital shared their thoughts and memories ahead of the first year of the port explosions in Beirut, on Monday.
"I am still having flashbacks from the past and remember what happened. And now as we wait for Wednesday, I feel my heart beating faster again," said Rayaan Jafar, a nurse at Saint George hospital. "When you come to the hospital and enter rooms that have not yet been renovated, like this room, and places where there are no glass, all of that makes you remember what happened for sure."
I walked out of the clinic, and I don't remember what I saw but I remember what I heard, because I heard glass breaking under my feet," recalled Dr George Jovelikian head of the Department of Chest Diseases and Intensive Care at Saint George hospital, who described him self as being in shock.
On August 4, a massive explosion at Beirut's port devastated much of the Lebanese capital, claiming 220 lives and injuring 6,500. Some 300,000 people were displaced from their homes.
Health workers at Saint George hospital shared their thoughts and memories ahead of the first year of the port explosions in Beirut, on Monday.
"I am still having flashbacks from the past and remember what happened. And now as we wait for Wednesday, I feel my heart beating faster again," said Rayaan Jafar, a nurse at Saint George hospital. "When you come to the hospital and enter rooms that have not yet been renovated, like this room, and places where there are no glass, all of that makes you remember what happened for sure."
I walked out of the clinic, and I don't remember what I saw but I remember what I heard, because I heard glass breaking under my feet," recalled Dr George Jovelikian head of the Department of Chest Diseases and Intensive Care at Saint George hospital, who described him self as being in shock.
On August 4, a massive explosion at Beirut's port devastated much of the Lebanese capital, claiming 220 lives and injuring 6,500. Some 300,000 people were displaced from their homes.