On Thursday, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported that the death toll from the pager and walkie talkie explosions in the previous two days is at 37, while over 3,000 people have been injured. Health officials say that the attack was, in essence, a mass-disabling event. Abiad said that there were 400 surgeries carried out across the country on Tuesday alone, the majority of them addressing face and eye injuries.
Never do you have eye emergencies at this frequency. It's transforming 2,000 people into disabled [people] at the same time," one doctor who worked at the Beirut Hôtel de France hospital told The Guardian.
Unfortunately, we were not able to save a lot of eyes. He said that he had to remove at least one eye for over 60 or 70 percent of the patients.
Some of the patients, we had to remove both eyes. It kills me. In my past 25 years in practice, I've never removed as many eyes as I did yesterday," Warrak said.
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