Hospitals in Beirut were so badly damaged by the explosion that many can't admit patients

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• A massive explosion that destroyed buildings and killed at least 100 people in Beirut, Lebanon, damaged some city hospitals so badly that they can't treat blast victims.
• The New York Times reported that at least four were too damaged to admit patients, while other reports describe destroyed and damaged facilities.
• The director of one intensive care unit was walking home during the blast, found his apartment destroyed, and then went back to work only to find the hospital ruined too.
• A warehouse housing medicine and much of the country's vaccine may also have been damaged, the Times reported.
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Hospitals in Beirut, Lebanon, were so badly damaged in Tuesday's massive explosion that they could not admit any patients from the blast, which also hit a warehouse that housed much of the country's vaccine supply.

Lebanon's prime minister said the explosion on Tuesday was caused by a port warehouse containing more than 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate.

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