According to al-Quds al-Arabi website, the resistance movement is also equipping the country\u2019s hospitals as part of a plan to help confront the coronavirus.<\/p>\n
Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah\u2019s executive council told Lebanon\u2019s Al-Manar TV that it is \u201ca real war that we must confront with the mindset of a warrior.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur role is to complement the government apparatus and not to stand in its place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Hezbollah is deploying 1,500 doctors, 3,000 nurses and paramedics and 20,000 more activists in its plan, Safieddine said. \u201cFrontline Islamic Resistance medics are taking part in this plan\u201d.<\/p>\n
Hezbollah had dedicated a Beirut hospital it owns to treating coronavirus patients, rented four disused hospitals, prepared 32 medical centers across Lebanon and laid plans for three field hospitals if needed. It has also rented hotels to be used for quarantine, Safieddine said<\/p>\n
Lebanon has so far recorded 333 coronavirus cases. Six people have died from the respiratory disease. The Beirut government has declared a medical emergency.<\/p>\n
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