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Lebanon’s healthcare sector is being praised by the country’s officials for its rapid response to the aftermath of pager and walkie-talkie device explosions across the country, which killed 37 people and injured nearly 3,000 others. The attacks targeted communication devices used by Lebanese group Hezbollah and have widely been blamed on Israel. With the attacks mostly taking place in southern Beirut and the provinces of Bekaa and Baalbek-Hermel, officials told The New Arab’s sister site Al-Araby Jadeed that a nationwide emergency plan, put in place following the onset of Hezbollah-Israel clas…

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