Ground report: How Lebanon's largest public hospital is dealing with heavy casualties

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Israel continues to pound areas in southern Lebanon even after the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and several other commanders of the Iran-backed militant outfit..

The increased casualties due to Israeli airstrikes have resulted in the hospitals being swarmed with patients..

India Today TV's Ashraf Wani, the only Indian reporter on the ground in Lebanon, reached Rafik Hariri University Hospital on the outskirts of southern Beirut to report how the doctors have been dealing with the healthcare crisis...

Speaking to India Today TV, Dr Jihad Saadeh, Director of the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, said the hospital received over 300 people injured by airstrikes today..

I still remember that I could not speak when I saw, as a 10-year-old, these bodies, which are all burned," he said.. Dr Saadeh said when the Gaza war started in October last year, his team worked on organising the procedure which we do when we deal with injured patients...

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