Many of the world's healthcare systems are struggling with the pandemic, obviously.

But among industrialized countries, there's one place where a combination of factors including the collapse of their economy, political instability, migration and an unrelated massive disaster have merged to hit their hospitals in a way that may have no equal.

That country is Lebanon.

Omar al Masri sees it every day.

He's a Red Cross responder there.

The image that is always on my mind is just the hospital beds that are completely full.

Honestly, the the scenario in itself, it is just I'm not going to say it's It's scary fee a bit fee fi risk that's being taken.

But just saying hospitals truly full with patients that are on on ventilators on oxygen, it's It's just a name.

It puts you down at times, you know, the hospitals are full here in a way that other countries fear may happen to their own.

Some simply can't take anymore.

Reuters heard one story of a resident who spent hours calling hospitals trying to find a bed for her grandfather.

When that failed, she apparently took matters into her own hands and bought her own oxygen tank and put him on a stretcher outside a hospital where a doctor snaked an extension cord through a window for him.

But this is bigger than just covert infections.

Lebanon's economic crisis actually started several months before the pandemic in 2019.

Now it's in total financial collapse.

And then there were the events of August.

Okay, the massive explosion accident that hit Beirut, one of the biggest non nuclear detonations ever recorded in which 200 people died in leveled city blocks.

The shock waves struck hospitals in the city already dealing with the pandemic.

The political fallout from this almost immediate violent protests, the resignation of their government.

Reuters has also previously reported that hundreds of doctors have recently left Lebanon migrating to other countries.

On at one hospital, doctors told us that about 40% of their staff were either sick with co vid themselves or in isolation.

It's all too much for the health care system.

Toe hand Nadeem Kahwaji is another first responder like Masari.

No, that's the reality.

You can't do anything.

We have to adapt.

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We drive from one hospital to another, trying to find beds.

There was one time where we had to go through four hospitals until we found a place the fourth one worked E Arabia Mission.

Where does this all end for Lebanon?

The caretaker government says it's doing everything it can.

Some medical workers we spoke with believe it's acted too slowly and not aggressively enough.

But it has recently ordered a 24 hour curfew toe last until at least January 25th.

It's also secured millions of vaccine doses, including through the World Health Organization.

Georgia's Juve Loken is the head of critical care.

At Beirut's ST George Hospital.

We asked him, Does he still have hope?

If you have no hope, you can't continue.

No one can.